numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-Cons inhabiting the Bush
Jr. administration. These pro-Israeli Neo-Cons had been schooled in the
Machiavellian/Nietzschean theories of Professor Leo Strauss who taught
political philosophy at the University of Chicago in its Department of
Political Science. The best exposé of Strauss's pernicious theories on
law, politics, government, for elitism, and against democracy can be
found in two scholarly books by the Canadian Professor of Political
Philosophy Shadia B. Drury.2 I entered the University of Chicago in
September of 1968 shortly after Strauss had retired. But I was trained
in Chicago's Political Science Department by Strauss's foremost protégé,
co-author, and later literary executor Joseph Cropsey. Based upon my
personal experience as an alumnus of Chicago's Political Science
Department (A.B., 1971, in Political Science), I concur completely with
Professor Drury's devastating critique of Strauss. I also agree with her
penetrating analysis of the degradation of the American political
process that has been inflicted by Chicago's Straussian Neo-Con cabal.3

The University of Chicago routinely trained me and innumerable other
students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is
precisely why so many neophyte Neo-Con students gravitated towards the
University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities.
Years later, the University of Chicago b