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Neo-Cons,
Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists
by
Francis A. Boyle
Dissident Voice
September
23, 2003
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
"Neoconservative" 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. (1) 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, Undersecretary of State
John Bolton, and the numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-Cons inhabiting the Bush
Jr. administration.
These
pro-Israeli Neo-Cons had been schooled in the Machiavellian/Nietzschean
theories of Professor Leo Strauss who taught political philosophy at the
University of Chicago in its Department of Political Science. 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. (2) 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 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. (3)
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 University of Chicago in 1967. Many of his lawyers at the Bush Jr.
Department of Injustice are members of the right-wing, racist, bigoted,
reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka "Feddies"), (4) which originated in part at the University of Chicago.
Feddies wrote the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) I and the draft for USAPA II, which
constitute the blueprint for establishing an American Police State. (5) 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 attack on Washington D.C. that enabled Ashcroft and his Feddies to
stampede the U.S. Congress into passing USAPA I into law. (6)
Integrally
related to and overlapping with the Feddies are members of the University of
Chicago "School" of Law-and-Kick-Them-in-the-Groin-Economics (e.g.,
Richard Posner, Frank Easterbrook, Richard Epstein,etc.), 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. (7) This Chicago gang of academic con-artists and charlatans
are proponents of the Nazi Doctrine of "useless eaters." 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, formerly under Vice President
Dick Cheney) that had already interpenetrated the Bush Jr. administration as
well as the Bush Family itself. Enron.
Although
miseducated (8) at Yale and Harvard Business School, the
"Ivies" proved to be too liberal for Bush Jr. and his fundamentalist
Christian supporters, whose pointman and spear-carrier 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. (9)
According
to his own public estimate and boast before the American Enterprise Institute,
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, and the Palestinians. (10) Most of the
Straussian Neo-Cons in the Bush Jr. administration and elsewhere are
Israel-firsters: What is "good" for Israel is by definition
"good" for the United States. Dual loyalties indeed. (11)
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 (12) 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. (13) 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. (14) 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 biblical Gospel is Allan Bloom's The
Closing of the American Mind (1987). (15) Of course Bloom
was another protégé of Strauss, as well as a mentor to Wolfowitz. In his
Bloom-biographical novel Ravelstein (2000) Saul Bellow, formerly on 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 is still
worshiped and his elitist screed against American higher-education still
revered on a pedestal.
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 éminence grise of Ravelstein. With friends like
Bellow, Bloom did not need enemies. On the basis of Ravelstein alone, Wolfowitz
warrants investigation by the F.B.I.
Just
recently the University of Chicago officially celebrated its Bush Jr.
Straussian Neo-Con cabal, 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 University of Chicago Magazine, Bloom's
rant "helped popularize Straussian ideals of democracy." (16) It is correct to assert that Bloom's book helped to
popularize Straussian "ideas," but they were blatantly
anti-democratic, Machiavellian, 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 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 Feddies? (17) Justice
Clarence Thomas is a Straussian to boot. (18)
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 "Mad Bomber" McNamara. (19)
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. (20) Do not send your children to the University of Chicago
where they will grow up to become warmongers like Wolfowitz or totalitarians
like Ashcroft! The University of Chicago is an intellectual and moral
cesspool.
Francis A. Boyle is Professor of
Law at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Foundations of World
Order (Duke University Press, 1999) and The Criminality of Nuclear
Deterrence (Clarity Press, 2002). He is an Associate of the Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research in Sweden (TFF, www.transnational.org). This article
first appeared in TFF’s Press Info. Email: FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU
Other Articles by Francis Boyle
Endnotes
1. See, e.g., Rahul Mahajan, Full Spectrum
Dominance, 108 (2003).
2. Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of
Leo Strauss (1988); Leo Strauss and the American Right (1999). See
also Alain Frachon & Daniel Vernet, “The Strategist and the Philosopher:
Leo Strauss and Albert Wohlstetter,” Le Monde, April 16, 2003, translated into
English by Norman Madarasz on Counterpunch.org., June 2, 2003.
3. See also David Brock, Blinded by the Right
(2002).
4. George E. Curry & Trevor W. Coleman, “Hijacking
Justice, Emerge,” October 1999, at 42; Jerry M. Landay, “The Conservative Cabal
That's Transforming American Law,” Washington Monthly, March 2000, at 19;
People for the American Way, The Federalist Society (August 2001); Institute
for Democracy Studies, The Federalist Society and the Challenge to a Democratic
Jurisprudence (January 2001).
5. Francis A. Boyle, “Bush's Banana Republic,”
Counterpunch.org, Oct. 11, 2002.
6. Francis A. Boyle, “Biowarfare, Terror Weapons
and the U.S.: Home Brew?”, Counterpunch.org, April 25, 2002.
7. See Greg Palast, The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy (2003), at 5 et seq.
8. See Chomsky On Miseducation (Donald
Macedo ed. 2000).
9. Francis A. Boyle, “Take Sharon to The Hague,”
Counterpunch.org, June 6, 2002.
10.
White House Press Release, President Discusses the Future of Iraq, Washington
Hilton Hotel, Feb. 26, 2003.
11. Nasser H. Aruri, Dishonest Broker,
193-216 (2003). See also Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine (2002); Cheryl
A. Rubenberg, The Palestinians (2003).
12.
Norman Solomon, The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media (1999); Noam
Chomsky, Media Control (1997).
13. Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence,”
New Yorker, May 8, 2003; Michael Lind, “The Weird Men Behind George W. Bush's
War,” New Statesman - London, April 7, 2003; Julian Borger, “The Spies Who
Pushed for War,” The Guardian, July 17, 2003.
14. Machiavelli, The Prince 147 (M.
Musa trans. & ed. 1964): ". . . and men are so simple-minded and so dominated
by their present needs that one who deceives will always find one who will
allow himself to be deceived." This Bilingual Edition of The Prince
by Mark Musa was the one preferred by Joseph Cropsey to teach us students.
15. But see Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening
of the American Mind (1996).
16. Between the Lines, University of Chicago
Magazine, June 2003, at 54
17. Vincent Bugliosi, The Betrayal of
America (2001); Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 11-81
(2003).
18. Gerhard Sporl, The Leo-Conservatives, Der
Spiegel, Aug. 4, 2003.
19. McNamara Receives Pick Award Amid
Protests, University of Chicago Magazine, Summer 1979, at 4.
20. Noam Chomsky, Rethinking Camelot
(1993); Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect (1995).