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Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6531 Post contents: Great article, Dr. Gottfried. It has been well over a decade since I last read any editions of Action Francaise, but in the 1990s, while living in France, I because interested in the historical significance of the publication and was able to get my hands on some articles from it. I also was particularly interested in trying to get an original copy of a T.S. Eliot article from the publication (which I did not acquire). Gottfried: "it does not seem to me that these printed opinions show the depth of thought or elegance of Maurras’s political writing. (Even Maurras’s worst ravings are far better crafted than the denunciations of Islamofascism or European anti-Semitism that regularly appear in the neocon press.) Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind reads like a civics textbook designed for New Deal Democrats." Priceless. Gottfried: "Why are Jews, it might be asked, allowed to be an ethnic people—but according to the Zionists and Straussians, American Christians must see themselves as belonging to a propositional “universal nation”?" Here you are hitting the nail on the head. Action Francaise argued for a traditional type of patriotism, one rooted in blood and soil, kith and kin. While neocons may allow such devotion to Israel, it certainly is denied to all Christians and Western countries. Gottfried: "most neoconservatives disguise their Jewish nationalism by identifying it with global, nonsectarian democracy." This is the danger and genius of neocons. They essentially Israeli blood and soil nationalists, but they disguise it by simultaneously being globalists. They support policies (e.g. open borders, unbridled free trade, propositionalism, military overstretch) that are destroying Western nations and Western man. Gottfried: "Unlike most of the Straussians and all of the neoconservatives, Maurras was not a leftist but a man of the Right. Nothing more need be said on this matter. " *Nothing Said* Sebastion: " Mr. Gottfried’s recognition that Straussian thought is either oblivious or hostile to the ethnic unity of European nations partly explains the neoconservative enthusiasm for the EU project that seeks to do away with them." Neocons are not just reporting on the decline of Europe, they are cheering it. They truly hate Europe and the idea of the U.S. being a European nation.. Just look at the writings of Strauss, which are nothing more than a wallpapering over the real West with liberal abstractions. Bede http://www.conservativetimes.org Sent at: 2008 05 16