<P>We are just repeeating ourselves, so let's stop. jks
<P> <B><I>Michael Pollak <mpollak@panix.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:<BR><BR>> I stand by my criticism of your interpretation. You collapse what Weber<BR>> called "value rationality," or fanaticism, into economic rationality, or<BR>> the adaption of proportionate and senisble means to ends. Clausewitz<BR>> would not say that war for honor and glory, individual combat at the<BR>> expense of military victory, fit with the continuiation of political<BR>> ends by other means. That was precisely the view he was attacking.<BR><BR>No, I'm afraid that's completely wrong. The whole point of the quote is<BR>that the aims of war *are exactly the same* as those of politics. It only<BR>provides new means for reaching the same ends. And if the aims of<BR>politics are honor and glory, so will be the aims of war. You are making<BR>a distinction precisely where Clausewitz is saying there is not one.<BR><BR
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