An anonymous comment nevertheless signed Michael claims that the neoconservatives have "moral clarity" in their support for "liberal democracy". Well, yes, Leon Trotsky, Max Shachtman, Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand had nothing if not moral clarity, although I fail to see their connection to liberal democracy.
Stalinism, Trotskyism, apartheid South Africa, Pinochet's Chile and Galitieri's Argentina were all morally clear, as the first two still are. None, however, was or is liberal or democratic. But the Euston Manifesto Group were Stalinists or Trotskyists, and might very well still be. The Henry Jackson Society were supporters of apartheid South Africa and of Pinochet's Chile. The neocon heroine Jeanne Kirkpatrick used her position as US Ambassador to the UN to support the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands, possibly also supported by those now organised in and as the Euston Manifesto Group. Moral clarity, yes. Liberal democracy, no.
There is an unmistakable moral clarity about the cause of "militant Islam" (the only kind that there can be), whether in 1980s Afghanistan; in 1990s Bosnia; in today's Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and Chechnya; in Iraq, now that the bulwark against it there has been removed; in Syria, once the bulwark against it there has also been removed; or as imported by means of the unrestricted immigration necessitated by the "free" market. Moral clarity, yes. Liberal democracy, no.
There is an unmistakable moral clarity about the unbroken linear continuation of Nazism, whether in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Flanders, in Denmark, or indeed in the flooding of Israel with Russian Nazis due to the failure to move on from the Law of Return. Moral clarity, yes. Liberal democracy, no.
And there is an unmistakable moral clarity about legislators and others in positions of power the world over, including in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, discharging their responsibilities in accordance with daily dictation from a cabal of crooks and cranks in the United States, of whom only Dick Cheney holds any elected office even there. Moral clarity, yes. Liberal democracy, no.
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Is it worth pointing out that your obsession with the Euston Manifesto Group is wildly and absurdly out of proportion compared to how much influence and power they have.
ReplyDeleteThey are mostly bloggers, like you, and are not involved in Cabinet discussions or Board Meetings. Have you ever read Pootergeek's blog, for example? He's a self-employed freelance photographer with a blog; not a sinister figure exerting influence over national policy.
HE might not be...
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not sure what the several MPs in the EMG would make of what you say.
Of course, along with the HJS (to which all of those MPs have also signed up), they are just the London branch office. And we all know where the HQ is. Treason.
Douglas Murray was on Question Time AGAIN this week.
ReplyDelete28, too rich to need a job, one book on Oscar Wilde's lover and then a completely ridiculous defence of neoconservatism, pretends to be a think tank in order to give himself a byline. And that's it.
But he's now on Question Time roughly every other month, and Any Questions the months in between. Anyone still saying that there's no neocon junta?
David and the various David-supporting commenters who mention it who might actually be different people: what on earth is this obsession with who gets to go on Question Time?
ReplyDeleteIt's a major national platform. And we pay for it.
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