At this point, I think the pertinent question may be to ask what is the UGG

At this point, I think the pertinent question may be to ask what is the UGG response to be to an alliance of

the Sadrists with the Sunni resistance when they respond to the newly elected regime’s failure to demand an

immediate and complete withdrawal of UGG troops by overthrowing them?

In Jerry Z. Muller’s The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, one finds a detailed description

of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan in the context of the anti-commerce/anti-market era in which it was written. Hobbes

questioned his era’s Christian virtues of faith, honor and glory coupled with the vices of Industry, material

well-being and individualism. Muller writes of Leviathan

Instead of religious other-worldliness, its vision is resolutely this-worldly; and the secular world it seeks

to forge is not one of warriors and rulers, but of individuals living in peace, prosperity and intellectual

development.

Muller describes just how different these ideas were

Hobbes knew that he was undertaking a transvaluation of values, some of which took the form of the redefinition

of character traits. Those which had been regarded as virtues in the Christian tradition such as piety and

faith, were redescribed as superstition and credulity. The passion for honor, glory and command so valued in

the civic republican tradition were treated primarily as causes of contention and war. [...] Parts of

Leviathan, therefore, take the form of what the rhetoricians of [Hobbes'] day . . . called “paradiastole,” the

method of rhetorical redescription by which what had been defined as vices could be redescribed as virtues, and

vice versa.