Les Roms. Blog » Creative Destruction and the Iraq War. Last night I watched The New American Century, a documentary about the neoconservative movement and its influence on American foreign policy.
There are things in the film I didn’t agree with—for example, its assumption that September 11 was an “inside job”—but it got me thinking. Leo Strauss, grandfather of the neoconservative movement, felt that modern life is vulgar and trivial. Moral relativism had made America soft, and we were on the road to decadence and decline. To combat this, we needed to be united by a common enemy, even an imaginary one, to give us a sense of purpose in the fight of good against evil.
Nobel Prize Winner and Op-Ed Columnist for The Ne. T r u t h o u t. Ei: The Electronic Intifada.