will to power

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

  By sacrificing human life to serve their radical
> visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they
> follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism.  And
> they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends:  in
> history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."
>    --W
> 
> Bush paused as the chamber applauded. I thought, does he know what he
> is saying? Do the people applauding him know? Well, someone knows.
> Sounded like a Pat Buchanan line to me.
> 
> 
> I must admit, I did a double-take when I heard Bush utter this line.
> Nietzsche is forever doomed to be one of the first philosophical
> conscripts in our wars of good versus evil, no matter how hard he
> tried to move beyond it. Sigh. Jesus and the prophet Mohammed beat him
> to the punch this time though. That's right: Christ is a philosopher.
> Our leader says so.

I think you are off on the wrong tangent here.....This is Peggy 
Noonan on life support, a trite metaphor by a wheezing 
hack........recall Reagan's "dustbin of history" line re: 
communism......

love,
cfa