Posted on 03/06/2019 6:21:40 PM PST by marshmallow
About 50 miles south and east of Rome, high in the Apennine mountains, lies the Charterhouse of Trisulti whose isolated magnificence prompted the German historian Ferdinand Gregorovius (who stumbled upon it in the 1850’s) to write in his classic work Years of Wandering in Italy, “If a place exists where the human spirit can reach the gravest and highest meditation, this must be it, in one of the most sublime states of solitude I have ever seen.”
Here, in this huge deserted monastery founded in 1204, which has 15,000 square meters of roof, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and the former chief executive of Breitbart News, Stephen K. Bannon, has founded what he told me will become “a gladiator school for culture warriors.” The mission of this school, or academy to give it its formal title, is to save the West, no less, by restoring Judeo-Christian values to the heart of the political conversation.
But, I wonder, will those values be enough? Or do they require a belief in God to give them the necessary weight?
Forced to wear sackcloth and ashes in America, after being dumped by Trump and Breitbart, Bannon decided to dispense his volatile magic in Europe instead.
Certain people achieve greatness only in exile; Dante and Machiavelli wrote their masterpieces after being banished from Florence. What of Bannon?
The political arm of his European mission is The Movement, a Brussels-based think-tank which aims to help populist parties throughout the E.U. triumph in the May European Parliament elections. That is not going terribly well, as far as I can tell. The cultural—or should that be spiritual?—arm is this “gladiator school” in the middle of the Apennine nowhere. This intrigues me more.
So, before Christmas, I went to take a look.
Bannon was in America when I.......
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Nor do I. I am Catholic and whatever this person is who is in power is, he is certainly not our Pope.
Don’t bother telling me I’m wrong, the rest of you. Francis is as much a post turtle as Obama ever was.
I see you just joined February 25, I worry more about you than I do about Bolton.
Bump
Met him. Talked to him about it.
He’s not.
He did not push for the Iraq war based on the false premise of WMD?
“Peace in our time”?
Fascinating article.
He supported the removal of Saddam Hussein but not staying in Iraq after that.
By the way Saddam Hussein did have WMD. He did not have stockpiles of it in the way that the Bush team was told. Those certainly could have been moved to Syria.
The Republican Hate machine that manufactures falsehoods like “there were no WMD” is the same machine that is now manufacturing “there is no crisis on the Border”
Freepers need to be more cautious about this reality given the long game that this site envisions.
I support President Trump but he bought into the Iraq war Lie game when he was a democrat. The same bogus thing is being done to his Presidency as we speak. I am confident I will be talking to some new FReeper 10 years from now about how Trump was not lying about the Border Crisis.
Personally, I think the entire Iraq war was heroic and a fantastic repudiation of the stupid Vietnam fantasy given to us by the might AntiAmericans who dominate our intellectual culture.
Well, you think what you want to think. I know about what I actually know . ZERO WMD to justify 5000 dead soldiers 48,000 wounded and $1.7 TRILLION. For fricken Nothing. Bolton must GO!! Trump had better get control of his administration or he in absolute toast.Trump is dead on about Iraq.I love Trump!~!
Lots of WMD was found in Iraq.
Some was even used on our troops.
Might want to consider that the media lied to you about Iraq.
False beyond belief.
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