Neo-conservative’s roots were planted first by Rockefeller [View All]

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A strange marriage a century ago between Christian missionaries and cut-throat capitalists created the world’s first billionaire, and it’s a marriage still working for men like Harper and Bush
By Dan Adleman


Modern day neo-conservatism is usually associated with the Project for the New American Century, a “think tank” of prominent right-wing warmongers (including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, John Bolton, and Francis Fukuyama) who got together in 1997 to argue for a new “Pax Americana,” whereby the global order "must have a secure foundation on unquestioned US military preeminence” with full-scale domination of not only the world and its resources, but also space and cyberspace.

In 1998, PNAC sent a letter to then-President Clinton, urging him to declare war against Iraq on the basis of its proximity to Iran and Israel and its rich oil reserves: “While the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification , the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein. . . . And even should US-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in US security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region."

PNAC luminaries like former Assistant Secretary of Defense and current World Bank president Paul.Wolfowitz and Alan Bloom (who set up shop at the University of Toronto and formed the kernel of what later developed into the so-called Calgary School, the ideological wing of Harper’s Conservatives), claim direct intellectual lineage from Leo Strauss, a post-WWII German philosopher who (perhaps rightly) saw democracy as being rife with nihilism and constantly in jeopardy of falling victim to the tyranny of the majority.

In response to this, he advocated a kind of modern Machiavellian aristocracy that would use the “noble lies” of religion and nationalism to manipulate the dumb, hedonistic masses into doing the bidding of the natural ruling elites. And it was this very policy of calculated deception and manipulation that the Bush administration used to coerce the American public into getting behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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