How odd the role of ideas has become in the new administration! How peculiar they match the logic and reasons used to express the myths and world views of white supremacists and are now given a vital role in the US conduct of international affairs. How strange that no one seems to recognize their basic flaw: the idea of security is used to defeat the freedom it is supposed to protect! This subversive logic is a mainstay of groups and thinkers grounded in the historic notion of the heritage of European superiority.