Original at http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006
/06/godfather-of-911.html

Many people have heard of the Project for a New American Century. But PNAC does not go far enough in explaining why 9/11 was carried out. This essay looks at the modern intellectual force who actually created the justification for 9/11.

Leo Strauss is the father of the Neo-Conservative movement, including many leaders of the current administration. Indeed, some of the main neocon players were students of Strauss at the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years. Strauss, born in Germany, was an admirer of Nazi philosophers and of Machiavelli.

So what does this have to do with 9/11? Well, Strauss believed that a stable political order required an external threat and that if an external threat did not exist, one should be manufactured. Specifically, Strauss thought that:

"A political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat . . . . Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured"(quote is by one of Strauss' main biographers).

Indeed, Stauss used the analogy of Gulliver's Travels to show what a Neocon-run society would look like:

"When Lilliput [the town] was on fire, Gulliver urinated over the city, including the palace. In so doing, he saved all of Lilliput from catastrophe, but the Lilliputians were outraged and appalled by such a show of disrespect." (this quote also from the same biographer)

Moreover, Strauss said:

"Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic . . . Nevertheless one may say of it that it fiddles while Rome burns. It is excused by two facts: it does not know that it fiddles, and it does not know that Rome burns.

So Strauss seems to have advocated governments letting terrorizing catastrophes happen on one's own soil to one's own people -- of "pissing" on one's own people, to use his Gulliver's travel analogy. And he advocates that government's should pretend that they did not know about such acts of mayhem: to intentionally "not know" that Rome is burning. He advocates messing with one's own people in order to save them from some "catastophe" (say the lack of justification to monopolize middle eastern oil to keep it away from our real threat -- an increasingly-powerful China?).

Moreover, since Strauss advocated "manufacturing" external threats, false flag terrorism seems to fit the prescription perfectly.

Is it any wonder that Strauss' disciples carried out 9/11? The cold war was over, so there was no real external enemy that was scary enough to maintain a stable political order. This is especially true given that: election fraud brought the neocons into office; their popularity was very low before 9/11; and they could only move the American public away from their traditional ideas of freedom and fighting only in self-defense if sufficintly terrified about a big, bad boogeyman.

The neoconservatives had to manufacture that external threat by "pissing on" New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvannia. They had to pretend that they didn't know that the planes were about to hit and that Rome was about to burn.

Strauss told them so."