Neocon Bill Kristol: It’s Sweet To Die For The State Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 15, 2014
Neocon big leaguer, William Kristol, has come out with another doozy of an op-ed for the Weekly Standard, the neocon redoubt Kristol edits that has consistently lost around a million dollars a year since its inception in 1995. This time around, Bill glamorizes the War to End All Wars, the First World War. He laments the “gravitational pull toward a posture of ironic passivity or fatalistic regret in the face of civilizational decline,” in other words the natural attitude of normal people to avoid war, largely because they inevitably pay the heavy price while a pampered intelligentsia hide out in their ivory towers. Bill says the First World War engendered a “continuing deep if often indirect contribution to today’s demoralization of the West” because, as his buddy, the Canadian David Frum (inventor of the “axis of evil”) notes, it brought about a rejection of war despite the best efforts of the state to glorify and glamorize it. As a student of the guru of neoconism, Leo Strauss, Bill Kristol knows what he’s doing, never mind the hackneyed prose or his disingenuous reliance on Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Shadia Drury, a scholar and critic of Leo Strauss and his progeny, put the neocon deception into context during the Bush years and the heyday of neocon total war and mass destruction. “Leo Strauss was a great believer in the efficacy and usefulness of lies in politics,” Drury told Danny Postel in 2003, soon after the neocon invasion of Iraq and its ultimate price of more than a million dead. “The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable. I suppose that Strauss’s disciples consider it a noble lie. Yet many in the media have been gullible enough to believe it,” and continue to do so as the invasions of Libya (more than 30,000 slaughtered) and the ongoing mercenary war in Syria reveal.
Kristol is pandering to the masses, or rather the small slice bothering to read his loser magazine and its accompanying website. Neocons are once again on the march. They warn us histrionically about supposed dangers ahead, this time from a resurgent al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the process, Kristol intellectualizes a basic American patriotic icon, the national anthem, which is largely forgotten amidst the cultural degeneration he imagines. Bill does this in order to rekindle what is left of an urge to plunge headlong into endless war. Neocons, after all, believe they are destined to rule and the rest of us to follow and, ultimately, if the propaganda is effective, those of us outside the Platonic cirlce will struggle to the death in never-ending war. “On this perverse view of the world, if America fails to achieve her ‘national destiny,’ and is mired in perpetual war, then all is well. Man’s humanity, defined in terms of struggle to the death, is rescued from extinction,” Drury told Postel. “To my mind, this fascistic glorification of death and violence springs from a profound inability to celebrate life, joy, and the sheer thrill of existence.”
HEY BILL IF ITS SO COOL TO DIE FOR THE STATE WHY DON'T YOU AND YOUR KIDS GO TO THE FRONTLINES. OH I SEE ITS COOL FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S KIDS TO DIE BUT NOT YOU OR YOUR KIDS RIGHT.
NSA To Congress: F*Ck Off Washington’s Blog January 15, 2014 We’ve shown that the NSA has been spying on Congress for some time. The NSA has never denied that it’s spying on Congress. Instead, the NSA first said: Members of Congress have the same privacy protections as all US persons.
And Friday, NSA chief Keith Alexander wrote a letter to Senator Bernie Sanders saying that the NSA cannot reveal whether the agency has been targeting members of Congress in its metadata collection because doing so would violate privacy provisions accorded to civilians in the program: The telephone metadata program incorporates extraordinary controls to protect Americans’ privacy interests. Among those protections is the condition that NSA can query the metadata only based on phone numbers reasonably suspected to be associated with specific foreign terrorist groups. For that reason, NSA cannot lawfully search to determine if any records NSA has received under the program have included metadata of the phone calls of any member of Congress, other American elected officials, or any other American without that predicate. Sanders This is the exact same excuse the NSA and other intelligence agencies have previously given for hiding how many Americans they spy on. As Wired reported last June: The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so. That claim comes in a short letter sent Monday to civil libertarian Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall. The two members of the Senate’s intelligence oversight committee asked the NSA a simple question last month: under the broad powers granted in 2008′s expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, how many persons inside the United States have been spied upon by the NSA? The query bounced around the intelligence bureaucracy until it reached I. Charles McCullough, the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the nominal head of the 16 U.S. spy agencies. In a letter acquired by Danger Room, McCullough told the senators that the NSA inspector general “and NSA leadership agreed that an IG review of the sort suggested would itself violate the privacy of U.S. persons,” McCullough wrote. In other words, the NSA is sending the same message to both the American people and their representatives in Congress: f@ck off.
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