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The neoconservatives of the Bush Administration which include Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle, are disciples of a philosopher named of Leo Strauss.

A professor at Chicago university, Leo Strauss was instrumental in influencing his "select" students and in shaping the conservative agenda we see today. An agenda based on his philosophy that the elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses. Today's Straussian conservatives are committed to a  “New World Order”. They envision a new era of “Enlightenment” by imposing what is termed  “moral clarity and purpose” of “American exceptionalism” upon the world through forced military democratization. A war is peace doctrine, which flouts and dismantles international laws through open-ended warfare while maintaining both foreign and domestic rule. This messianic vision of an American global empire smacks of a totalitarian Orwellian super state with apocalyptic consequences for all humanity or what I can "Neocon Imperialism or Apocalypse Now."

 In short, Leo Strauss's neo-conservatism seeks U.S. military and economic domination of the world.   This neocon strategic way of thinking is now guiding US foreign policy to establish their “American World Empire". But the neocons desire more then just World domination through their “Pax Americana”, neocons envision the domination and control of space as well. Stating that much like the control of the high seas in the past, like “Pax Britannia, “sea Power” is to be replaced by “space power”. This control even extends to cyberspace or the “infosphere” as tactical objectives to be realized. In  Rebuilding Americas Defenses they state the necessity for the creation of a “new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of space control.”

 As  Jeffrey Steinberg writes in an article entitled  “Profile: Leo Strauss, Fascist Godfather of the Neo-Cons”.

“The hallmark of Strauss' approach to philosophy  was his hatred of the modern world, his belief in a totalitarian system, run by "philosophers," who rejected all universal principles of natural law, but saw their mission as absolute rulers, who  lied and deceived a foolish "populist" mass,  and used both religion and politics as a means of disseminating myths that kept the general population in clueless servitude. For Strauss and all of his protégés (Strauss personally had 100 Ph.D. students, and the "Straussians" now dominate most university political science and philosophy departments), the greatest object of hatred was the United States itself, which they viewed as nothing better than a weak, pathetic replay of "liberal democratic" Weimar Germany. (Emphasis added)

 It was this perceived weakness of America’s excesses and lack of military projection that drove this early band of Jewish liberals to add the prefix “neo” to conservative to reflect their arrogant ideological thinking that called for the use of American military superiority to democratize the world though lies and deceit of the masses for their political objective. 

 This philosophy of deception is one of the critical elements of neoconservative thought.  

William Pfaff of the International Herald Tribune writes in “The long reach of Leo Strauss Neoconservatives”

 “He (Leo Strauss) also argued that Platonic truth is too hard for people to bear, and that the classical appeal to "virtue" as the object of human endeavor is unattainable. Hence it has been necessary to tell lies to people about the nature of political reality. An elite recognizes the truth, however, and keeps it to itself. This gives it insight, and implicitly power that others do not possess. This obviously is an important element in Strauss's appeal to America's neoconservatives.”

 His real appeal to the neoconservatives, in my view, is that his elitism presents a principled rationalization for policy expediency, and for "necessary lies" told to those whom the truth would demoralize.”  (Emphasis added)

Pfaff stresses that it is important to understand the philosophy of Strauss,

 “because his followers are in charge of U.S. foreign policy.”

 And who are these new philosopher kings ruling our government though lies and deception?

 One well known Straussian is William Kristol, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century who when interviewed for the book, “Gang of Five” by Nina J., Easton held nothing back when he said,

 “One of the main teachings [of Strauss] is that all politics are limited and none of them is really based on the truth. So there's a certain philosophic disposition where you have some distance from these political fights.... You don't take yourself or your causes as seriously as you would if you thought this was 100% ‘truth.' Political movements are always full of partisans fighting for their opinion. But that's very different from ‘the truth.” (Emphasis added)

Other Straussian’s include:

 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Abram Shulsky of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, Richard Perle of the Pentagon advisory board, Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council, John Podhoretz, editorial page editor of Murdoch's yellow tabloid, the New York Post, former editor of The Weekly Standard, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; Attorney General John Ashcroft; I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of staff and chief national security advisor to Vice President Cheney, who was introduced to the world of Leo Strauss by his own Yale University professor and mentor, Paul Wolfowitz; Pentagon disinformation officer Abram Shulsky; Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Kristol-led Project for the New American Century (PNAC); David Brook, another editor of The Weekly Standard; Werner Dannhauser, a protégé of Strauss, who left academia to assume the editorship of the flagship neo-con magazine Commentary following the retirement of Norman Podhoretz; and Robert Kagan, also of The Weekly Standard, and the son of leading Yale University Straussian Donald Kagan and William Kristol, the co-founder with Robert Kagan of the the Project for the New American Century established in 1997.

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Leo Strauss

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