Mandatory Reading For Anyone Interested in the Middle East: The Israeli Lobby

[marct]

Hi Fuchs,

I'd rather characterize that as an almost universal agreement, a treaty signed by every nation. It designs an institution and lays out a framework as well as accepted and binding rules.

"almost universal"? Did you sign it? Did I? Did AQ? Nope, it is only "almost universal" in the sense that it was signed by a collection of representatives of the fictitious entities we can nation-states. If the underlying ideology is viewed as illegitimate, which it is by many including AQ, then it is not "almost universal".

This may be traced back to philosophy like the contract social, not so much to ideology.

Fuchs, do you seriously think that philosophical positions are not also ideological? They are the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of any ideological position - the formal system of the ideology.

We disgress, though.

Nope, we're getting to the root of the question .

Cheers,

Marc