[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Why Trump must go: he threatens not to continue US war provocations v. Russia and China

[Boyle, Francis A]

Well I studied Machiavelli with Strauss’s right-hand man, co-author and literary executor  of his Estate, Joseph Cropsey of Strauss and Cropsey. He took Machiavelli’s The Prince  quite seriously and taught it as such to all of his students at the University of Chicago. Fab.

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From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu]
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To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Peace] Why Trump must go: he threatens not to continue US war provocations v. Russia and China

1.) D in the BDS campaign (worth discussion on its own) stands for ‘divestment’ and doesn’t necessarily imply the ZFC ("Zionists are a Fifth Column for Israel”) theory.
It’s a campaign against Israel’s illegal occupations that says little about US policy - altho’ it’s true that Israel could not continue the occupations without US economic, diplomatic, and military support.

2.) Criticisms of Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Federalist Society are undoubtedly appropriate. (See e.g. Leo Strauss, 'Thoughts on Machiavelli," 1958.)

3.) It may however be historically inaccurate to call them Machiavellian, except as the word has entered into popular political parlance (especially English: 'Machiavel' had its present censorious meaning in 16th century English, as “an intriguer and unscrupulous schemer”; cf. 'Merry Wives of Windsor', 3.1: "Am I politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel?”)

4.) The work for which the accomplished scholar, historian and playwright Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is best known, 'The Prince', was probably a rather bitter satire on how ‘princes’ - despots - behaved, and not the instruction manual it’s been taken as: <http://www2.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/flor-mach-mattingly.htm<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www2.idehist.uu.se_distans_ilmh_Ren_flor-2Dmach-2Dmattingly.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=hauF1LUOW-sEVVIz_tUnbjJXY8JULOZrM7yw4tdQ4wU&s=n-0ReVw1GPEConDysVjI6bD04--T02VCJp1Boe9vz8Y&e=>>.

5.) It’s probably at least reductionist to call the US invasion of Iraq - the greatest crime of the century to date - "aggression against Iraq for the benefit of Israel.” The long-standing US goal of control of Mideast energy resources was clearly the object of the invasion. Control, not just access, to what the State Department called in 1945 “the world’s greatest material prize” is what the US demands; we import very little oil from the Mideast for domestic use; but control provides a choke-hold over competing economies from Germany to China.

6.) Regarding attending  the U. of Chicago and other pillars of the American educational establishment (including what Chomsky calls “the academy for the passive and the obedient in Harvard Square”), perhaps we should remember Ernesto Che Guevara's comment: "I envy you North Americans. You live in the belly of the beast.” (Or, as someone I knew said a half-century ago, "You have to be from Scarsdale to know how bad it is.”)

—CGE

On Jul 16, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu<mailto:fboyle at illinois.edu>> wrote:

I have been fighting Zionists all over the world  since I entered the University of Chicago in 1968. Zionists are a Fifth Column for Israel wherever they live
Fab.
D in the Palestinian BDS Campaign…


April 3, 2010 Saturday 9:07 AM EST
LENGTH: 1826 words
HEADLINE: Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies & Con-Artists: Bush to Obama
BYLINE: Francis A Boyle

It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy
of 11 September 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli
Neo-Conservative Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire
to wage a war of aggression against Iraq by manipulating the tragic events of
September 11th in order to provide a pretext for doing so. Of course Iraq had
nothing at all to do with September 11th or supporting Al-Qaeda. But that made
no difference to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, their Undersecretary of War Douglas Feith,
and the numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-Cons inhabiting the Bush Jr.
administration.

   These pro-Israeli Neo-Cons had been schooled in the
Machiavellian/Hobbist/Nietzschean theories of Professor Leo Strauss who taught
political philosophy at the University of Chicago in its Department of Political
Science for many years. The best exposé of Strauss's pernicious theories on law,
politics, government, for elitism, and against democracy can be found in two
scholarly books by the Canadian Professor of Political Philosophy Shadia B.
Drury: The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (1988); Leo Strauss and the American
Right (1999). I entered the University of Chicago in September of 1968 shortly
after Strauss had retired. But I was trained in Chicago's Political Science
Department by Strauss's foremost protégé, co-author, and later literary executor
Joseph Cropsey.

Based upon my personal experience as an alumnus of Chicago's Political Science
Department (A.B., 1971, in Political Science), I concur (NASDAQ:CNQR)
completely with Professor Drury's devastating critique of Strauss. I also agree
with her penetrating analysis of the degradation of the American political
process that has been inflicted by Chicago's Straussian Neo-Con cabal. Strauss
was a protégé of Nazi Law Professor Carl Schmitt, who justified every hideous
atrocity that Hitler and the Nazis inflicted on anyone, including the Jews.
Chicagos Neo-Cons are Neo-Nazis.
 The University of Chicago routinely trained me and innumerable other students
to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so
many neophyte Neo-Con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or
towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. Years later, the University of
Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr.
Empire and his Ashcroft Police State. Attorney General John Ashcroft received
his law degree from the Neo-Con University of Chicago Law School in 1967. Many
of his lawyers at the Bush Jr. Department of Injustice were members of the
right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, elitist, war-mongering, and
totalitarian Federalist Society (A.K.A.:"Feddies"), which originated in part at
the Neo-Con University of Chicago Law School. There Barack Obama would teach
constitutional law. Feddies wrote the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) I and the draft
for USAPA II, which constitute the blueprints for establishing an American
Police State. Meanwhile, the Department of Injustice's own F.B.I. is still
covering up the U.S. governmental origins of the post 11 September 2001 anthrax
attacks on Washington D.C. that enabled Ashcroft and his Feddies to stampede the
U.S. Congress into passing USAPA I into law.

Integrally related to and overlapping with the Feddies are members of the
University of Chicago Law School Movement of
oeLaw-and-Kick-Them-in-the-Groin-Economics, which in turn was founded upon the
Market Fundamentalism of Milton Friedman, now retired but long-time Professor of
Economics at the University of Chicago. Friedman and his "Chicago Boys" have
raped, robbed, looted, plundered, and pillaged economies and their respective
peoples all over the developing world, especially People of Color, and now here
in the United States. This Chicago gang of academic con-artists and charlatans
are proponents of the Nazi Doctrine of "useless eaters" that was condemned by
the Nuremberg Judgment (1946). Pursuant to Friedman's philosophy of Market
Fundamentalism, the "privatization" of Iraq and its Oil Industry are already
underway for the primary benefit of the U.S. energy companies (e.g., Halliburton
(NYSE:HAL) , formerly under Bush Jr.s Vice President Dick Cheney) that had
already interpenetrated the Bush Jr. administration as well as the Bush Family
itself. Enron.

Although miseducated at Yale and Harvard Business School, the "Ivies" proved to
be too liberal for Bush Jr. and his fundamentalist Christian supporters, whose
pointman and spearcarrier in the Bush Jr. administration was Ashcroft, a Fundie
himself. The Neo-Cons and the Fundies contracted an "unholy alliance" in support
of Bush Jr. For their own different reasons, both gangs also worked hand-in-hand
to support Israel's genocidal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, an internationally
acknowledged war criminal.

According to his own public estimate and boast in a 26 February 2003 speech
before the American Enterprise Institute (another front-organization for
Straussian Neo-Cons), President Bush Jr. hired about 20 Straussians to occupy
key positions in his administration, intentionally taking offices where they
could push American foreign policy in favor of Israel and against its chosen
enemies such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians. Most of the
Straussian Neo-Cons in the Bush Jr. administration and elsewhere were and still
are Israel-firsters: What is "good" for Israel is by definition "good" for the
United States. Dual loyalties indeed. These same principles hold true for the
not-so-closet Neo-Cons in the Obama administration: e.g., Rahm Emanuel, Larry
Summers, Elena Kagan, Dennis Ross, Cass Sunstein, etc.

In addition, it was the Chicago Straussian cabal of pro-Israeli Neo-Cons who
set up a special "intelligence" unit within the Pentagon that was responsible
for manufacturing many of the bald-faced lies, deceptions, half-truths, and
sheer propaganda that the Bush Jr. administration then disseminated to the
lap-dog U.S. news media in order to generate public support for a war of
aggression against Iraq for the benefit of Israel and in order to steal Iraq's
oil. To paraphrase advice Machiavelli once rendered to his Prince in Chapter
XVIII of that book: Those who want to deceive will always find those willing to
be deceived. As I can attest from my personal experience as an alumnus of the
University of Chicago Department of Political Science, the Bible of Chicago's
Neo-Con Straussian cabal is Machiavelli's The Prince. We students had to know
our Machiavelli by heart and rote at the University of Chicago.

As for the University of Chicago overall, its New Testament is Allan Bloom's
The Closing of the American Mind (1987). Of course Bloom was another protégé of
Strauss (and thus the intellectual grandson of Nazi Law Professor Carl Schmitt),
as well as a mentor to Wolfowitz. In his Bloom-biographical novel Ravelstein
(2000) Saul Bellow, longtime member of the University of Chicago Faculty, outed
his self-styled friend Bloom as a hedonist, pederast, and most promiscuous
homosexual who died of AIDS. All this was common knowledge at the University of
Chicago, where Bloom was and is still worshiped on a pedestal and his elitist
screed against democratic education in America still revered as gospel truth.

In Ravelstein Wolfowitz appeared as Bloom's protégé Philip Gorman, leaking
national security secrets to his mentor during the Bush Sr. war against Iraq.
Strauss hovered around the novel as Bloom's mentor and guru Professor Davarr.
Strauss/Davarr is really the eminence grise of Ravelstein. With friends like
Bellow, Bloom did not need enemies. On the basis of Ravelstein alone, Wolfowitz
warranted criminal investigation by the F.B.I.

Immediately after the Bush Jr. administrations wanton aggression against Iraq,
the University of Chicago chose the occasion to officially celebrate its
Straussian Neo-Con cabal responsible therefore, highlighting Wolfowitz Ph.D.
'72, Ahmad Chalabi, Ph.D. '69 (the CIA's Iraqi puppet), Abram Shulsky, A.M. '68,
Ph.D. '72 (head of the Pentagon's special "intelligence" unit), Zalmay
Khalilzad, Ph.D. '79 (Bush Jr.'s roving pro-consul for Afghanistan and then
Iraq), as well as faculty members Bellow, X '39, and Bloom, A.B. '49, A.M. '53,
Ph.D. '55, together with Strauss. According to the June 2003 University of
Chicago Magazine, Bloom's rant "helped popularize Straussian ideals of
democracy." It is correct to assert that Bloom's book helped to popularize
Straussian "ideas," but they were blatantly anti-democratic, Machiavellian,
Hobbist, Nietzschean, and elitist to begin with. Only the University of Chicago
would have the unmitigated Orwellian gall to publicly assert that Strauss and
Bloom cared one whit about democracy, let alone comprehended the "ideals of
democracy."

Does anyone seriously believe that a pro-Israeli Chicago/Strauss/Bloom product
such as Wolfowitz could care less about democracy in the United States let alone
in Iraq? Or for that matter anyone in the Bush Jr. administration? After they
stole the 2000 presidential election from the American People in Florida and
before the Republican-controlled U.S. Supreme Court, some of whom were/are
Feddies? Justice Clarence Thomas is a Straussian to boot. For eight years the
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists of the Bush Jr. administration did
everything humanly possible to build an American Police State. So far University
of Chicago Constitutional Law Teacher President Barack Obama has failed and
refused to deconstruct and dismantle their totalitarian handiwork. To the
contrary, the Obama administration has defended and justified in court almost
every hideous atrocity that the Bush Jr. administration perpetrated on
international law, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, the U.S.
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

At the behest of its Straussian Neo-Con Political Science Department, in 1979
the entire University of Chicago went out of its way to grant the "first Albert
Pick Jr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Understanding" to
Robert McNamara, who was personally responsible for exterminating 3 million
Vietnamese and 58,000 men of my generation. In other words, the University of
Chicago itself maliciously strove to rehabilitate one of the greatest
international war criminals in the post-World War II era. History shall always
record that the University of Chicago gratuitously honored Bob
oeHalf-an-Eichmann McNamara.

Do not send your children to the University of Chicago where they will grow up
to become warmongers like Wolfowitz and totalitarians like Ashcroft! The
University of Chicago is an intellectual and moral cesspool. As J.D.
Rockefeller, the Original Robber Baron and Funder of the University of Chicago
once commented about his progeny: oeIts the best investment I ever made. Still
is…

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