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Entry: The Real American Right: Part III Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_american_right_part_iii#13751 Post contents: The strange thing here about WF Buckley is that he did not emerge out of a Leftist crucible like the Neo Con Bolsheviks he bequeathed the NR to. He reportedly had the benefit of lunchtime lectures from Nock, who was a friend of his pappy. He does seem to be an old school Federalist Oligarch though, that odd kind that seems to simultaneously loathe and encourage big government while dipping into the Noble Lie Locker to address the questions of the day. Perhaps his strains are part of the political schizophrenia of the age.....where only absurdist irony explains anything. I suppose we must all be chastened by the "realities" of 50's and 60's America...when the Soviets seemed to be eating our lunch, launching into space before us and purportedly free of poverty and racism. When Nikita pounded his poorly made shoe on the Kitchen Counter, an awful lot of people thought it just may be credible. Many here actually hoped it was. I can tell you that my feelings for the Soviets were crystalized as I participated in the Nuclear Attack Drills of good old Horace Mann School, where they had a beehive farm at the main hall window to condition us to hive life. Being 8 years old and filing down to the basement to think about bombs raining down and our own little Hiroshima....it was an odd thing. At that time, Soviet Socialism seemed to be something that would always be there. Perhaps it is a lesson for today regarding terrorism because left to it's own devices, terrorism, like Soviet Socialism will consume itself. It punishes most, those who it claims to represent. Before the Iraq War, moderate elements in Iran were gaining momentum. Our belligerence begets theirs. The fearsome thing here is that after 'defeating Soviet Socialism, we became something like them and so one wonders how much like the terrorists we will become. It seems obvious already. No good will come of it. Osama, a product of the international Oligarchy, fed by us, nurtured in the Cold War and immersed in the Royal Saudi Family's favorite factory of diversions, Wahabbism and therefor part of the great ongoing hoax on his society's underclass.....He is a Hollywood protagonist for this President of ours, another scion of the industrial oligarchy, molded by the Cold War, cosseted by elitism but claiming to be a "reglar guy " and part of the under and middle class which is experiencing their own great hoax by his policies.......There is such root tradition, simplicity, symmetry and purity of narrative as to make it a story straight out of antiquity. Unfortunately, our Greek Chorus is a media that appears to be comprised of Touretic Hair Triggers whose favorite theme is rent garments and the occasional Starlet Melt Down. Tremendous summary Raimondo.........the narrative is re-growing, if slowly and perhaps, a tad late. Sent at: 2008 07 09