Leo Strauss

I've noted in the past that PNAC was the main driver of policy in America today. Now please meet their teacher(you know, those damned liberal colleges), Leo Strauss:

Like Thomas Hobbes, Strauss believed that the inherently aggressive nature of human beings could only be restrained by a powerful nationalistic state. "Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed," he once wrote. "Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united – and they can only be united against other people."
Not surprisingly, Strauss' attitude toward foreign policy was distinctly Machiavellian. "Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured (emphases added)."

"Because mankind is intrinsically wicked" ....Gee we don't even start from the same basis, I don't think we are going to find much agreement here.

"And they could only be united against other people". ...Gee I seem to often see others united or rooting FOR or WITH the other. Do you ever see that, at sporting events or political rallys or Religious services? I guess we are once again not going to find much agreement here. No wonder I don't like these guys. I totally disagree with them from the get go. I'm not just a bush basher?!

More brilliance from Leo later.