Holy War

As a follow up to Jazz's gloomy posts below I ask the question; how much of the suffering in Iraq is the Radical Christian Right responsible for? I had a post on an article by libertarian Paul Craig Roberts yesterday, Virtuous Violence. Although he discusses the policy of the Bush administration he has some rather harsh observations about the supporters of those policies.

Many Bush partisans send me e-mails fiercely advocating "virtuous violence." They do not flinch at the use of nuclear weapons against Muslims who refuse to do as we tell them. These partisans do not doubt for a second that Bush has the right to dictate to Muslims and everyone else (especially the French). Many also express their conviction that all of Bush's critics should be rounded up and sent to the Middle East in time for the first nuke.

These attitudes represent a sharp break from American values and foreign policy. The new conservatives have more in common with the Brownshirt movement that silenced German opposition to Hitler than with America's Founding Fathers.

"Reality Based" thinking would have to lead us to believe that the problem is the United States is much more than George W. Bush but is the result of a large percentage of the population who don't believe in science but do believe in a "Crusade" against the "non believers". Welcome to 16th century America.