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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I’m sure he did. But I think Garrett Mattingly was probably the better historian.  


> On Jul 16, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> 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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> Francis A. Boyle
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> From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 6:33 PM
> To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
> Cc: prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> 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.  
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> 2.) Criticisms of Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Federalist Society are undoubtedly appropriate. (See e.g. Leo Strauss, 'Thoughts on Machiavelli," 1958.)
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> 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?”) 
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> 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>.
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> 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.
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> 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.”)
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> —CGE
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> On Jul 16, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> 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…                     
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>  
> 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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