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If Strauss, an unworldly academic lecturer, had no conceivable link with the neoconservative project to unleash redemptive war and exalt untrammeled executive power, why did two of his followers, neocon operatives Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt — who had both held government positions in foreign intelligence — write a 1999 essay crediting Strauss with having helped them conceptualize intelligence matters?

This is all happening while elected Republican officials are lining up to exalt Trump's criminality.

“You limit God by making Him so extraordinary and you His only friend. Me, humble servant that I am, exalt even sheep—the miraculous pitchers of milk and cheese, benevolent contributors of wool.”

“Anzac Day has never asked us to exalt in the glories of war. Anzac Day asks us to stand against the erosion of time and to hold on to their names,” Albanese added.

We certainly don't fault them for their bad decision-making skills — we exalt them.