Have you read any books by any neocon authors?

[Jara sang]

I just got "Silent Warfare" by Abram Shulsky. It's a pretty good book on intelligence theory. I also have "Of Paradise and Power" by Robert Kagan. I thought the Kagan book was interesting because it mentions "the New World Order" in the title, it's more of an essay.

[Hardrada]

1. I bought some books by Leo Strauss, their godfather,

but haven't read them yet since I have to read all the antiShrub books first not to mention the study of Buddhism.

[Jara sang]

2. What do you think about Woodwards books about the Bushies?

I have "Bush at War" but I have heard that Woodward is a Bush apologist and have had "Plan of Attack" recommended to me by a neocon to defend his position that "everybody thought Iraq had WMDs"

[H2O Man]

3. Plan of Attack

has one sentence about Joseph Wilson. Hence, while there is some value to be found in the book, it surely can not be considered an objective history of events.

[Hardrada]

4. I haven't gotten to those yet

but I have read and will recommend Dynasty and American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips. Also I thought the Risen book on the CIA and Bushco was good.

[Jara sang]

5. I read Risen's "State of War"

It's great.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Yeah-Mein Kampf, The Necronomicon, Beyond Good and Evil

[Hardrada]

7. Nietzsche is actually all right.

He actually saw a lot of the vile things which would come from excessive nationalism especially, of course, in Germany. He mainly felt that Europe was suffering a corruption of the spirit and also was quite opposed to the sort of religiousity we see so much on display here. He wrote some decent poetry and music too.