Bill Kristol To Become New York Times Columnist In 2008

The Huffington Post has learned that, in a move bound to create controversy, the New York Times is set to announce that Bill Kristol will become a weekly columnist in 2008. Kristol, a prominent neo-conservative who recently departed Time magazine in what was reported as a "mutual" decision, has close ties to the White House and is a well-known proponent of the war in Iraq. Kristol also is a regular contributor to Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume.

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[batguano]

The NY Times has lost any credibility it once had with this appointment of yet another NeoCon idiotlogue to it's staff.(In addition to the usual incoherent Con gibberish of David Brooks). The idea of adding "balance" to NYTimes commentary is just as absurd as adding "balance" from Goebbels/Nazi propagandists during WWII.
The genesis of Bill Kristol & his fathers ideology is interesting. The "Godfather" of the NeoCon movement, was Leo Strauss, who came to America in 1937, carrying a letter of recommendation from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Two of Strauss's students at the U of Chicago were Paul Wolfowitz & Abram Shulsky; others close to his thinking/teaching include Norman Podhoretz, Clarence Thomas, & Robert Bork.
Strauss taught:
1. There are two classes... the "superior" & the "inferior"... if you are wealthy & powerful, you are a "superior"... the rest of us are chumps & the "inferior".
2. It is up to the "superior" to use & manipulate the "inferior" with lies, religion, force or whatever it takes to PROTECT THE POWER AND WEALTH of the "superior".
3. The "superior" should profess religion, but need not believe it... because it will help control the masses.
4. Strauss' attitude toward foreign policy was that "a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat, he maintained that if no external threat exists then ONE HAS TO BE MANUFACTURED.

"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in, an "aggressive, belligerent foreign policy," of the kind that has been advocated by neocon groups like PNAC and the AEI " not to mention Wolfowitz and other administration hawks who have called for a world order dominated by U.S. military power.
Strauss' neoconservative students see foreign policy as a means to fulfill a "national destiny" " as Irving Kristol (Bills Father) defined it in 1983."

Some Strauss/NeoCon Backround; http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1355 http://www.alternet.org/story/15935
PLEASE READ these pieces, they will, perhaps, open your eyes!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC20Ak07.html

[JacktheBlogger]

This is absolutely fantastic! Along with David Brooks, the conservative viewpoint will now be well represented in that liberal bastion, The New York Times.

By the way, except for his die-hard position on Iraq, Mr. Kristol is a pretty reasonable commentator. It's hard not to like him.