It is no accident that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was a student of Allan Bloom (in fact, Wolfowitz makes a cameo appearance in Ravelstein, Saul Bellow's novel about Bloom); Bloom, like many other influential neoconservatives, was a follower of the political theorist Leo Strauss, whose quiet odes to classical virtue and harmonious order veiled his Nietzschean vision of torturous conflict and violent struggle."
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The problem is this characterization is pretty far off the mark.
For example, Nietzsche is present, but as a foundational critic of modernity. Modernity broadly conceived, is a loss, a decline, a falling down from some prior state of natural order, and as the loss and destruction of a hierarchy of values. So, in that sense the neocons are in revolt against the current order which apparently embraces a relativity between differing sets of values from different societies, and tolerates a multiplicity of views and understands that tolerance of this diversity is part of the core to democratic governance both within individual nations and between them--- something along the lines of the United Nations. This is why the UN is apparently despised, depreciated, and utterly disrespected.
Instead, I think they view themselves as the sole possessors of understanding what is the social `good' for the rest of us. As such possessors of the `good' they have empowered themselves to enact that good where ever needed. Since it is the absolute good, there is no argument. There are only friends and enemies.
You will get further along in understanding these jerks following something like what I just sketched than you will following the above quote.
Chuck Grimes