December 17, 2005
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, 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 miseducated8 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.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
media12 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.
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. Bus'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).