Inspired by the strange, Eastern European philosophy of Leo Strauss, the neoconservatives who now control the Republican Party (and hence, the federal government) have repudiated conservatism’s limited government philosophy in their quest for world empire (or, in Bill Kristol’s words, “National Greatness”). On their agenda is a twenty-year “occupation” of Iraq (Kristol’s idea), with the …Inspired by the strange, Eastern European philosophy of Leo Strauss, the neoconservatives who now control the Republican Party (and hence, the federal government) have repudiated conservatism’s limited government philosophy in their quest for world empire (or, in Bill Kristol’s words, “National Greatness”). On their agenda is a twenty-year “occupation” of Iraq (Kristol’s idea), with the …