[Pres Raygun]

This intellectual seems to stumble to the right conclusions from all sorts of wrong reasons. The so called intellectuals should first clean out their own house by examining the role they have played in the totalitarian nightmares of the 20th century. A good place to start, might be admitting that Nazism was just a nationalistic version of socialism and that the Baathist are simply Arab Nazis. The intellectuals of the 20th century, have failed miserably at almost everything they have set their minds to, with the exception of the physical sciences and medicine.

[cornelis]

The intellectuals of the 20th century, have failed miserably at almost everything they have set their minds to, with the exception of the physical sciences and medicine.

There's some irony in this. It is the success in the sciences that prompted the intellectual errors. This author, by the total equation of warfare with totalizing intellectuals confuses both the nature of warfare, ideology, and the role of the intellect. His naïveté his apparent in this soggy hope: "in the war of ideas is precisely what will make the engagement of armies less necessary."