Reply #2: Oh, brother. I scanned through her article and it worries me [View All]

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deeply.

The references to "the superior few" strike me as edging toward the kind of conspiracy theories, that You Know Who are trying to dominate the world -

Can some other DU'ers please kick in here? Surely I am not alone in suspecting this article of lacking a certain scholarly rigor?

I think, this woman's POV is fruit of some kind of poison tree, which has its roots in bigotry and not in fact.

I do not espouse the neocon philosophy, Pax Americana, so forth - obviously. I'm just a rank and file Democrat who's been flyin' the peace flag for longer than I care to mention.

By the same token, the espousal of forward-leaning American strength and dominance is NOT a new idea. It has been practiced in FACT for decades now - look at Southeast Asia ('Nam) and Latin America. The demise of the Soviet Union has caused people who espouse such an aggressive stance to act more recklessly and more openly, as we have seen in Iraq.

The consequences of THAT particular debacle should cool the jets a bit, I think; "pax", after all, means "peace" and I think it should be obvious to all they they F***** UP, and that peace is going to be better served by making - uh - PEACE, rather than creating wars.

On the other hand, we fought in 'Nam for years, ditto in Latin America, so what do I know.

Certainly, the interests of the global multinational corporations are served by our armies and our soldiers: the acquisition of favorable trading terms has not always come through deal making on the telephone. We have long used wars, large and small, to help advance the commercial interests that help fuel our economy. This should hardly come as a shock to adults, or to people who are aware of the rationales behind the creation of multinational corporations OR of powerful nations with global economic and geopolitical interests.

I am extremely concerned about this article and its implications. This is NOT scholarship. She is implying something altogether different, impugning the very well documented social liberalism of Strauss and his followers and bringing up the ancient specter of "world domination" theories.

Read Seymour Hersch. HE is a great writer. And the University of Chicago is a GREAT academic institution, hardly a hotbed of sneaky conspiracies.