Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Obama Gives Up the Fake "Hope and Change" Act...And Adopts the Neocon FEAR Playbook

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Remember, the father of the Neoconservative movement (Leo Strauss), who tutored many leaders of the current administration, believed that a stable political order required an external threat and that if an external threat did not exist, one should be manufactured. Specifically, Strauss thought that:
A political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat . . . . Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured"

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