http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Any comments????
Signed by Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld.
By: Geforce - 26th March 2003 at 21:21
True. I never read anything from Schoppenhauer. I think the most popular philosophers nowadays are Wittgenstein, Whitehead, Sartre and Husserl.
Kaplan, I do know the guy. Well, I thougt he was also one of the PNAC-guys.
By: Arthur - 26th March 2003 at 21:12
I think for philosophy, you’ll like Schopenhauer. Nothing like a little pessimistic structuralism to darken down your day and make reality just that little more saddening. His works also translates quite easily into international politics, it’s kind of strange his works are no longer populair amongst internationalist scholars.
As for international affairs, Robert D. Kaplan is good (not Robert S. Kaplan who writes tedious business manuals and neurolinguistic BS for the Oprah-goes-Wallstreet book review). He’s quite pessimistic, but not really unfounded.
The Coming Anarchy – Shattering the dream of the Post Cold War is the perfect answer to Fukuyama’s naieve conservativism-victory-rant, and actually more in-depth than Huntington. An Empire Wilderness is one i still have to read myself, but it is on how the US seems to be developing in the future. Sure sounds interesting.
The best one i read from him was The ends of the Earth which is basically a global travel report in which various countries are described on the road downhill. Frightening book, but then again you don’t have to agree with him 😀
By: Geforce - 26th March 2003 at 20:59
Donald Kagan, well he`s probably the worst of them all. The problem with these Yale-professors is that they actually believe what they are saying. We are not obliged to read those books ofcourse, and I think I can better use my time to read Machiavelli, Hobbes or Kant instead.
Huntington was still OK, but even his views on future conflicts are very simplistic. Problem is that most people take the `Clash of civilizations` seriously, though it`s just a book based on opinions.
These authors, especially Kagan, want to look smart by adding one-liners and referring to great European philosophers like Kant, Heidegger and Bacon. Though I don`t believe one of them has ever read some of books on the subject. These men are unworthy the name of historian or philosopher.
By: Arthur - 26th March 2003 at 20:33
Did you have to read Fukuyama????
BWHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!
That book was so stupid, it’s a miracle people still take him seriously. It is a good excercise on how to disagree with a certain world view though…
Haven’t read Kagan though. Sounds like fun though – can you enlighten me a bit?
By: Geforce - 26th March 2003 at 19:43
Keltic, I wish you were right. Unfortunattely, this website is deadly serious. Have you been looking at the names of the ones who signed it? Not only politicians, but lots of historians from whom we have to read books. Just to name a few ; Francis Fukuyama (End of History) and Donald Kagan (The Origin of War). I read both books, and I think they are the biggest piece of trash ever written.
I think the PNAC is a bit like Cardinal Richelieu was for France in the 17th century. If these plans would become reality, than we will all live in a Hobbesian world by 2030. (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan)
By: keltic - 26th March 2003 at 19:39
Re: http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Originally posted by Geforce
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Any comments????
Signed by Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld.
Some americans should travel a bit more. What I think about this idiotic page. Welcome to fantasy world.
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th March 2003 at 05:11
“Building on today’s hard-won and uncertain success in the Balkans would be easier were Romania and Bulgaria full, stable members of the alliance
Moreover, southeastern Europe will play an even larger role in U.S. and NATO missions in the Caspian, Caucasus and Central Asia, crucial regions in President Bush’s war on terrorism.”
Ie it will be easier to control the Serbs and help the Chechen seperatists if we have allies sharing borders with those regions.
It seems someone forgot to tell Turkey…
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