Invade the World

Invade the World The late, great Murray N. Rothbard was particularly prescient and prophetic in this September 1994 essay published in The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, the direct predecessor toLewRockwell.com. VIDEO: From Boston to Pakistan, Pentagon Officials Claim Entire World is a Battlefield Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Speaking at the first Senate hearing on rewriting the AUMF, Pentagon officials specifically said troops could be sent to Syria, Yemen and the Congo without new congressional authorization. Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, predicted the war against al-Qaeda would last at least 10 to 20 more years. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) challenged the Pentagon’s interpretation of the Constitution and that the entire world is a battlefield. “This is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing I’ve been to since I’ve been here. You guys have essentially rewritten the Constitution here today,” King said. “You guys have invented this term ‘associated forces’ that’s nowhere in this document. … It’s the justification for everything, and it renders the war powers of Congress null and void.” Bill Kristol’s Empire of Death Follow the links in this extremely illuminating article, particularly the one below: Noble Lies And Perpetual War: Leo Strauss, The Neo-Cons, and Iraq I learned the basic political philosophy of the ancients and moderns at the University of Tulsa from a Straussian who had studied with the Master at the University of Chicago. We read books (e.g. Natural Right and History) and essays (“What is Political Philosophy?”) by Strauss and his leading initiates such as Joseph Cropsey and Allan Bloom. We deconstructed the Allan Bloom translation of Plato’s The Republic, which is quite different in interpretation and nuance than previous renditions.

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