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AT LEAST HE'S HONEST. This essay, published by Family Security Matters (an arm of the influential Center for Security Policy) really has a to be read in its entirety to be believed, but a few quotes should give you a feel for it:
By elevating popular fancy over truth, Democracy is clearly an enemy of not just truth, but duty and justice, which makes it the worst form of government. President Bush must overcome not just the situation in Iraq, but democratic government ....If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestige while terrifying American enemies.
He could then follow Caesar's example and use his newfound popularity with the military to wield military power to become the first permanent president of America, and end the civil chaos caused by the continually squabbling Congress and the out-of-control Supreme Court.
The author, Philip Atkinson has since been completely scrubbed from FSM's Web site, but he was listed as a "contributing editor." This needs to be a bigger issue, if only to make clear just how nuts some people on the right can be. Will the major media outlets pick this up? I hope so, but somehow I'm not optimistic.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (5)
I realize mainstream thought on the right is often indistinguishable from satire, but still, that almost has to be satire.
Posted by: Steve | August 23, 2007 11:30 AM
It's not entirely clear it is satire. A few months ago Harvey Mansfield published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that essentially put on the table the idea that we need a strong man to lead us. This is but a more full throated version of that, with some idiotic foreign policy tossed on top (delicious sprinkles of crazy for your ice cream of stupid).
To answer the final question: no, no they will not. Now, if some Professor at some small bumfuck university someplace at said it...now we're talking!
Posted by: Josh R. | August 23, 2007 11:34 AM
It won't surprise anyone to know that Atkinson considers himself a philosopher, introducing Web readers to the topic with this:
"Dissembles truth" indeed.
Posted by: RSA | August 23, 2007 11:54 AM
It's not satire. Check out the guys website at www.ourcivilisation.com. He's quite the character to say the least.
Posted by: Mike in Denmark | August 23, 2007 12:12 PM
Mark Kleiman initially was sure it was satire, but checked out the guy's history and now is equally sure he was serious. He also doubts the MSM will do anything about it.
Posted by: beckya57 | August 23, 2007 1:29 PM