President George W. Bush has become dangerously steeped in ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse, an imminent war with Satanic forces in the Middle East, and an urgency to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God's end-of-days plan, according to close observers.
Historians and investigative journalists following the "end-time Christian" movement have grown alarmed at the impact it may be having on Bush's Middle East policies, including the current war in Iraq, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian crisis, the strife in Lebanon and the administration's repeated attempts to find a cause for war against Iran.
Many people are aware that Bush is "the most aggressively religious president in American History," as eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described him, (Schlesinger, "War and the Presidency," 143) but most remain without a clue to what this actually means.
(Via John Shirley's blog.)
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Bush, Mideast Wars and End-Time Prophecy
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There is a war that needs to be fought against radical Islam. They are attacking Western Countries.
Unfortunately, idiot Bush is in charge of it. The mixture of stupidity and religous ferver (they might go hand in hand) gives us the strategic and moral nightmare we are presently seeing.
Stan
"Radical Islam" may indeed need to be squashed but that job can't be done responsibly by "radical America". It's going to take a global collective of level headed leadership leveraging both diplomacy and tightly focused ground tactics. From a global perspective the USA has simply lost all credibility.
Everybody wants/needs something, even radical Islamics. Figure out what that something is (beyond death to America)and you can find a diplomatic wedge point. A tipping point to calm mob hysteria. Unfortunately the current administration is doing precisely the opposite inflaming the situation at every turn.
I think those of us with level heads are crossing our fingers that the next President will address the mistakes of the current administration head-on in a very public way. America needs to step back humbly and ask the world for help to clean up its mess. That's the only way this situation will ultimately change.
Schlesinger is no more an 'eminent historian' than Bill Moyers is an even handed and esteemed journalist. Both are Democrats. Their modus operandi is to offer blanket criticism of republicans. Where were these people when president Clinton was having sex with an employee who is barely legal. I love your blog but please keep in mind the Dems are guilty of everything you can accuse the republicans of.
I love your blog but please keep in mind the Dems are guilty of everything you can accuse the republicans of.
It's a matter of degree, but I essentially agree with you. I'm not fond of either party.
Long live the Whig Party!
Only 565 days, 11 hours, and 2 minutes left until the monster and his evil crew are tossed out of the White House. You too can count the days:
http://bushclock.lose.com/
Plenty of time to start some horrific new shit. Think Iran and/or Syria.
Schlesinger is no more an 'eminent historian' than Bill Moyers is an even handed and esteemed journalist. Both are Democrats. Their modus operandi is to offer blanket criticism of republicans. Where were these people when president Clinton was having sex with an employee who is barely legal. I love your blog but please keep in mind the Dems are guilty of everything you can accuse the republicans of.
All politicians are agenda driven and generally flawed beings. Start waking up to the fact that it's us vs them not part vs party. Me and you beating each other over the head with stories about how great our respective parties are, reduces the argument down to a decidedly "sheeple" level. They are both flawed although I have to say the current administration makes blow jobs in the white house look absolutely romantic by comparison.
What is apparent to everyone with a brain is that the current government needs a serious reboot and kick to the pants. Enough is enough already.
Mac,
Do you really "essentially agree" that Dems are guilty of the same things as Republicans.
You are right that it is a question of degree, but the question of degree is the essence.
Getting a blow job from an intern might be corrupt, but it is essentially different from sacrificing thousands of innocent lives for the economic interests of your cronies. It has become politically correct to say that the Dems and the Republicans are the same. This tact was championed by the Greens in the 2000 election, when they tried to have us believe (still to this day) that there is no "essential" difference between Al Gore and George Bush.
Stan
Well, the only real bit of "sameness" here is that Dems and the Reps share the same broken government. No Democrats aren't running off the rails into nutjob, 1982 land like the Republicans but they do sometimes fall victim to the same weaknesses.
The United States needs a multi-party system like Canada if it wants to keep things truly "checked and balanced". You can't hold a dictators feet to the fire when he makes things up as he goes. The American system is broken plain and simple and it is the American people that should be screaming this message as loud as they can.
Screw em both I say and get a third or even a fourth party in there.
More people in the US of A are now registered as independents than either Republicans or Democrats.
I'd say that signifies an evolving change based on alienation from both parties ineffectual shenanigans. But the last 35 years of Republican Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and both Bushmen) were decidedly worse, IMHO.
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