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On Our War: Some Advice for Our Leaders,” he states: “1. Man is more inclined to do evil than to do good.” This of course says more about Ledeen’s own proclivities and the proclivities of those in his circle than it does about human nature or the world at large. He continues, “Societies with a majority of good people are rare, and are constantly threatened by the evil-minded world outside. Peace is NOT the normal condition of mankind, and moments of peace are invariably the result of war. Since we want peace, we must win the war. Since our enemies are inclined to do evil, we must win decisively and then impose virtue on their survivors, so that they can’t do any more evil to us. . . . 2. The only important thing is winning or losing. Don’t worry about how the world will judge your strategy. Just worry about winning. Machiavelli tells us that if you win, everyone will judge your methods to have been appropriate. If you lose, they will despise you. 3. If you have to do unpleasant things, it is best to do them all at once, rather than to do a long series of little ones. Strike decisively, get it over with. Don’t listen to your diplomats, who will try to convince you that you can achieve your goals with a little bit of nastiness and a whole lot of talking. . . . 4. It is better to be more feared than loved. You can lead by the force of high moral example. It has been done. But it’s risky, because people are fickle, and they will abandon you at the first sign of failure. Fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once you show that you are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to your enemies, your power will be far greater.”201

All of this mirrors and brings up to date Caligula’s favorite phrase, coined by the poet Lucius Accius, “Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us so long as they fear us.”202 This line, now quoted regularly by those who run the United States government,203 is perhaps the most important phrase in the history of civilization, and characterizes everything from childrearing practices to education to social regulation (the civilized term would be law enforcement) to relations with human neighbors to relations with the natural world. It characterizes civilization.

Ledeen more or less always urges politicians to go to war. And he more or less always urges them to do so quickly, ending many of his essays more or less the same way: “Peace in this world only follows victory in war. Enough talking, Mr. President. . . . Let’s roll again. Faster, please.”204 Or, “One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today.”205 Or, “Faster, please. What the hell are you waiting for?”206 “Faster, please. Opportunity is knocking at our door.”207 “Iran is the heart of darkness. Enough already. Do it now.”208 “As in the war against Iraq, we have already waited far too long to get on with it. Faster, please!”209 “No let’s get on with the war. Faster, please.”210

Those in charge of this culture are insane.

They are killing the world.

WHY CIVILIZATION IS KILLING THE WORLD, TAKE SEVEN. During negotiations over the “Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” (that’s a lot of words to describe a document into which a lot of people put a lot of energy, and which is in the end nearly meaningless in terms of its effect in the real world; this was of course the point all along), Greenpeace activist Jeremy Leggett asked Ford Motor Company executive John Schiller how opponents of the Convention could believe there’s no problem with “burning all the oil and gas available on the planet.”

Schiller responded by first stating scientists get it all wrong when they say fossil fuels have been underground for millions of years: the Earth, he said, is just ten thousand years old.

How does he know this?

Because the Bible tells him so. Schiller says, “You know, the more I look, the more it is just as it says in the Bible.” The Book of Daniel, he states, predicts that increased earthly