Jeff,
You said, "William S Lind?? The poser who used to pass himself off as a former Marine officer on Paul Weyrich's televison network?"
I spent a number of years working in conjunction with a couple of the Marine officers who co-wrote the original article on 4th Generation Warfare with Lind. Neither of them ever mentioned Lind making false claims as to former service. And one of them, COL Gary Wilson, helped me sic "Jug" Burkett on a genuine poser who was working the special operations service schools at the time.
So I'm gonna have to say, Show Me on this one.
Here's some bio info I was able to find online FWIW. As to being a neocon, if anything the man is a paleoconservative.
And if you've read any of his writings and still disagree, please address the theories and analysis he presents and refrain from ad hominem attacks unless you can point out that there are legitimate reasons to do so. Take a look at
http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_8_02_05.htm as an example, and see if that in any way fits in with your concept of how we might handle the sort of things that would go on here at home should terrorists begin attacks here.
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200203/ai_n9073949
Conservative spotlight: William S. Lind
Human Events, Mar 4, 2002 by D'Agostino, Joseph A
"Cultural conservatism is the belief that there is a necessary, unbreakable, and causal relationship between traditional Western, JudeoChristian values, definitions of right and wrong, ways of thinking and ways of living-the parameters of Western culture-and the secular success of Western societies: their prosperity, their liberties, and the opportunities they offer their citizens to lead fulfilling rewarding lives. If the former are abandoned, the latter will be lost."
So does the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Cultural Conservatism link the two primary segments of the American conservative movement. The work of center director William S. Lind embodies the necessity, in the post-September 11 world, of connecting cultural conservatism with national security and foreign policy.
Lind, a military expert, co-wrote an article in 1989 on "Fourth-Generation Warfare" predicting exactly what has happened to warfare since the downfall of the Soviet Union. In an interview, Lind described the concept.
"The state loses the monopoly it established on war in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648," he said. He noted that experts have estimated that "the September 11 attack cost the terrorists $500,000 and did $750 billion in damage" when factoring in the worsening of the recession.
"As people transfer their loyalties away from the state," said Lind, "they are giving it to various entities." What is often called Hindu fundamentalism is a growing power in India, for example, and certainly "Islam, our most immediate opponent," claims the first loyalty of many people in many nations, he said.
This new, unstable situation requires a renaissance of traditional Western values, said Lind. "This is a three-sided fight," he said. "There is Islam, chaos, what we can call the fourth generation. There is the Brave New World that leftists are trying to build. And then there are the remnants of Christian civilization."
The fight against the fourth generation of warriors could take two forms, Lind said. "One is the police state, which is the way we seem to be going," he said. "The other is the universal militia, such as in Switzerland. Every male Swiss has his rifle."
One way of defusing potential terrorists at home is re-establishing "an open political system," again a feature of Switzerland, a diverse, highly decentralized, but still harmonious country. Here, "if elected representatives do something they don't like, a judge overturns the votes of millions of people," Lind said. "America has a closed political system."
Though he said that "the most dangerous form of fourth-generation warfare is the home-grown kind," Lind cautioned that contrary to emanations from the Bush White House, Western and westernized people should not underestimate the implacability of our culturally foreign foe of Islam. "Our most dangerous enemy is also our oldest enemy, Islam," he said.
"Islam is a religion of war. There is no peaceful Islam, only lax Muslims."
In a recent article posted on Free Congress' website, Lind-who lectures around the world on military strategy-recommends some major changes to the American military. "Unlike virtually every other military in the world," he writes, ."we rotate our people, officers and enlisted, at a dizzying rate. An officer is lucky to hold one job for two years; often, military families have faced as many moves as they have had years in service. The effect is to make every position an endless amateur act.... Worse, our various staff schools and war colleges don't teach war, they teach process. Because people are moved around constantly and are regarded as interchangeable, the only way the system can function at all is by reducing everything to standardized processes."
Lind, a graduate of Dartmouth and holder of an MA in European history from Princeton, worked for Democratic Sen. Gary Hart from 1977 to 1986. "Hart knew I was conservative when he hired me. . .," Lind said. "He was actually interested in governing the country. If the American people ever found this out, George III would be back by popular demand. At the outside, 10% of Congress is interested in governance."
The pipe-smoking Lind said that conservatives should label liberals "cultural Marxists. What we call political correctness or multiculturalism is actually Marxism translated from the economic into the cultural sphere.... The people who created it called themselves Marxists. The Frankfurt School created cultural Marxism by crossing Marx and Freud." Free Congress sells a collection of six essays and a video documentary on the Frankfurt School.
The solution? "We must create our own institutions, a parallel society," said Lind. "It's the most effective form of Counter-Revolution, as the Church did when the Roman Empire collapsed. But we should stay involved in politics, to protect ourselves."
Lind may be reached at the Free Congress Foundation, 717 Second St. NE., Washington, D.C. 20002 (202-546-3000; fax: 202-543-5605; website:
www.freecongress.org).
Copyright Human Events Publishing, Inc. Mar 4, 2002
poser!!!
