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Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6616 Post contents: Hmmm! "Blinded" by atrocity stories from Bolshevik lands or illuminated? Again, Sid (and Adriana) what would you have done in a position of power to thwart Bolshevism in Europe? Especially circa Spain 1934-9. We know the paths taken by Moussolini and Hitler. This was a tangible conflict minus the abstract b.s. In short, Sid the "rubber hit the road". What would the Sillonist position have been. I DO know that Jose Maria Gil Robles, the precursor of the Christian Democratic movement in Spain hauled his butt to exile and left the fighting and defense of the Church to those "reactionary" Carlists and unfashionable "blues"! As a matter of fact, with the exception of post War Germany, the track record of Christian Democracy,(see Chile, Italy (after Pius XII) the French "Worker-Priest" movement is rather "spotty" at best in combatting the Left. It's hard to combat a movement when a good part of your intellect is in sympathy with it! One can draw a pretty direct line from "Sillon" to "Ostpolitik". In fact a few characters lasted long enough to have participated in both misconceived efforts! As to Churchill & company, while making sport of Chamberlain's alleged weakness at Munich, they did a fantastic job of goveling at Uncle Joe's feet at Tehran and Yalta. For someone who entered the political arena to save the British Empire, his policies ensured its destruction and left Central and Eastern Europe in a far worse situation than existed prior to the war! At least the old boy had the common sense to confess to Anthony Eden that "We've killed the wrong pig"in 1946. From some of the posts I've read here, that fact still hasn't dawned on the writers. Sent at: 2008 05 16