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It's The Home Front - Revised
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Global Paradigms offers an inconvenient warning to those celebrating 2005 as the end of the W era and the “normalization” of politics:
Help Is Not On The Way. But let's be honest with ourseleves — and I'm referring here to the critics of the war and the entire Empire Project — there was a lot of expectation, well, wishfull thinking that the tide was turning against the neocons and the other members of the War Party. Pundits were fantasizing about Senator Chuck Hagel emerging as a Republican presidential candidate not to mention all the talk about the Democrats taking control of Capitol Hill in November,followed by Congressional investiations of the war, and who knows? Inpeachment?. Stop dreaming, my friends in the Reality-based Community. It ain't gonna happen anytime soon. The Democrats may gain a small advantage in the House. A few U.S. troops with return home and others will be deployed to Iraq. But America is going to be there for a long time to come.
Worth reading the whole thing. The Stiftung agrees that any overt action re Iran beyond the diplomatic will be in 2007.
Global Paradigms has a proven track record of exceptional accuracy and insight in the Middle East. This is really a well written summation.
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UPDATE: See Comments section. Just to clarify, the Stiftung endorses
Global Paradigm's analysis unreservedly. The observations below the fold are directed to other members of the Anti-War Coalition.
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The Real Danger Was Always Within, Not Abroad
The Stiftung agrees with
Global Paradigm's survey of the international landscape. But the Stiftung would amplify the warning against complacency for an additional and different reason.
To the Stiftung, the Administration's foreign policy was always a secondary manifestation of the viral ideology in the constituent elements of its base. The real transformative political agenda — and danger — was always really internal: of the Movement's desire to create a new American authoritarian Imperial self-image.
We can see outlines of this: the NSA matter, torture, Executive Signing Statements nullifying legislation, Padilla, exploding use of FBI National Security Letters, TALON, etc. As well as the concerted effort to mainstream non-rational belief systems such as 'Intelligent Design' and the inculcation of uncritical embrace of President as unquestioned Leader in time of “Crisis”.
Iraq, Iran and the Middle East, important as they are, are sideshows to this drive for internal reconfiguration of American society. The goal is the timeless effort to 'repeal the year 1789' in the words of one club footed opponent of liberal democracy. Here, in 2006, to remake us in the anti-democratic, anti-rational, anti-egalitarian image of the Straussian and Schmittean New Authoritarians. And rather than stalled by Iraq, this internal creeping coup continues apace, cheered on by the ignorant in the media.
We should have courage to speak this other uncomfortable truth: many in the so-called Anti-War coalition are, as the kids say these days, “down with all that”. These erstwhile 'allies' are at heart in whole or in part sympathetic to the Straussian and Schmittean critique of our society — even if they don't even know the origins of that hostility. They share the disdain for modernity, for egalitarianism, for a level society. Whether because of the neocons themselves, Israel or otherwise, these 'allies' could not countenance Operation Iraqi Excellent Adventure. But they are happy to see the internal coup proceed apace.
This internal agenda to flip our liberal democratic institutions inside out is of far greater danger to us and the world than Iraq or Iran. And those authoritarians who were against Iraq, like the NKVD working the ranks in Spain, are the real threat.
Global Paradigms is right that “Help Is Not on The Way”. Yet do not gaze overlong abroad. Those seeking a victory by opposing the Administration in Iraq and Iran may only taste the bitter fruit of a 'victory' turned to hollow ashes. The truth of this, Dear Reader, is all around you. If you would but look.
Posted in General Aktion
at 14:13 on Sunday 15 January
by DrLeoStrauss
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I totally agree with my learned friend, Dr. Strauss that President Bush and his allies have been trying to advance their control of many facets of American society in a way that violates traditional liberal values. But we need to recall that they were able to do that by exploiting a national security/foreign policy crisis, namely 9/11, and the rising sense of American Nationalism that resulted directly from that. Histocially, there is a direct correlation between the rise of the power of the Imperial Presidency and foreign policy crises (Civil war; WW I II and Cold War). You remove the foreign “threat” and it become more difficult for the administration to consolidate its political and bureaucratic control, disregard civil liberties, etc. This a basic libertarian observation: War is the Health of the State. So I'm not suggesting that we should play down concerns over what the Bushies are use their power domestically; but I'm arguiing that it would be difficult for them to do that without the perception of external threat. Finally, note the irony: In the name of promoting democracy abroad — this administration is weakening democracy at home.
Agree re the linkage of radicalism abroad with internal transformation is a time honored one. War scares and threats are frequently used for that purpose.
My point is somewhat different, however. We have reached the stage where the semi-permanent crisis and “threat” is accepted now by leadership of both political parties. Regardless of whether strikes are launched on Iran in 2007.
So for those who argue that politics are being “normalized” with an inevitable wind down in Iraq miss the important domestic agenda underway. Notwithstanding Iran.
It was not enough to oppose the Administration abroad and turn a blind eye to what is happening at home. Libertarians and non-Movement conservatives should wake up to what erstwhile 'allies' in the anti war movement such Buchanan and other Schmittean authoritarians are up to.
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