There are cumbersome filiations.
In the team of US President George W. Bush, which decided on the armed intervention against Iraq in 2003, there were among his advisers, known as the "neoconservatives", many students of a great professor of political philosophy at the Chicago school: Leo Strauss.
It did not take more for one to attribute to the thought of this one the paternity of this war for "the right and the democracy".
In his famous essay
The Call to Order.
Investigation of the new reactionaries
, the unspeakable Daniel Lindenberg greedily established this rapprochement.
As often, Lindenberg and the French left were knocking on the side: Leo Strauss was neither a fascist authoritarian nor a thurifer of human rights diplomacy imposed by a carpet of bombs.
But the left did not care because, behind this unknown professor to the general public, it was targeting its American followers, like Allan Bloom, or French, like Alain Finkielkraut
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