September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“As Kristol argues, strong religious faith and a belief in the transcendent basis of moral law is crucial
to the health of the country and the strength of the economy: “The three pillars of modern conservatism
are religion, nationalism, and economic growth. Of these, religion is easily the most important,
because it is the only power that . . . can shape people’s characters and regulate their motivation”.
The loss of a strong moral and religious compass, in turn, has led to the intense crisis that modern
liberal America faces, which he described as a “steady decline in our democratic values, sinking to
new levels of vulgarity.” [America, Left Behind : Bush, the Neoconservatives, and Evangelical
Christian Fiction, Hugh B. Urban, Journal of Religion & Society, Volume 8 (2006), ISSN 1522-5658 ]
The Neoconservative movement as expressed by its apostles, promised the fulfillment of
a “Utopian” vision with apocalyptic connotations – the ultimate, Utopian destiny of
human kind.
“…the Neoconservative “persuasion” has attracted a wide range of powerful figures, from Bush
cabinet members like Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney, to intellectuals like Franci
Fukuyama. Indeed, one of the most important texts for Neoconservative ideology is Fukuyama’s
widely-read work, The End of History and the Last Man, which posits that American government and
free market capitalism represent the final stage of human development with few flaws (cf. Burbach and
Tarbell: 83).” [America, Left Behind: Bush, the Neoconservatives, and Evangelical Christian Fiction,
Hugh B. Urban, Journal of Religion & Society, Volume 8 (2006), ISSN 1522-5658 ]
Clearly, the Neoconservative movement was and is more than expression of guidance for
American foreign policy. William Kristol and Michael Ledeen, as the Nietschean
Zarathustras of the Neoconservative movement, both advocate a disdain for all that has
preceded them with the proclamation that “history begins today” and that the future of
humanity is best determined by the global hegemony of their interpretation of “good
versus evil” based on their Judaeo-Christian Old Testament culture. Their interpretation
of what that culture demands is one that rationalizes a conscious choice and the practice
of evil, hatred, suffering, and arrogance in pursuit of their “Utopian vision.” The
philosophical rationalization of evil and hatred has resulted in a US foreign policy which
blatantly deploys unjustified war, murder, rape, torture, theft, fraud, lying, forgery and
bribery under the immunity of patriotism and national security and under the façade of
promoting democracy.
The Vulcan/Neoconservative ideology of world hegemony can be interpreted as
‘patriotic’ or impassioned love of country – but it is also a reflection of a deeper,
unnerving psyche. That psyche is best described by Hannah Arendt, whose classic study
of German and Russian totalitarianism provides insight to the many similarities between
the Neoconservative movement and those movements that gave birth to the totalitarian
phenomenon.
“The struggle for total domination of the total population of the earth… is inherent in the totalitarian
regimes themselves…Totalitarianism in power uses the state administration for its long-range goal of
world conquest and for the direction of the branches of the movement; it establishes the secret police
as the executors and guardians of its domestic experiment in constantly transforming reality into
fiction; and it finally erects concentration camps as special laboratories to carry through its experiment
in total domination.” [The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, Harvest Book, 1968, pp. 392]
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