Mais sobre Buckley

Diz Max Raskin:

"As the obituaries start to roll in, I'm sure there's not much I can say about the man's life that won't be said in the next few days. (I eagerly await David Gordon's review.) Nor will I insult Buckley as he so viciously did to Murray Rothbard. I would merely note that his death seems to coincide with the death of his dangerous neoconservative ideology. Buckley's career can best be understood as a Betrayal of the American Right.

His philosophy, best summarized in his own words, amounts to "we have got to accept Big Government for the duration–for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged...except through the instrumentality of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores."Therefore we must accept, "large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington..." (...)"

Problema: até poderiamos aceitar parte da argumentação, não fosse o imenso jeito para arranjarem sempre um inimigo indispensável e assim estarem sempre em "perpetual war for perpetual peace", nem que seja a propósito de 15 sauditas conseguirem um golpe de sorte no 11/9 passarem a ocupar 2 países não-sauditas com mais de 200 000 militares, cercando e ameaçando o Irão a que se soma colocar capacidade militar nos jardins da Rússia.

Por isso: lá temos que ser compreensivos com a "centralization of power in Washington" para toda a eternidade.