I am not sure it's Bush's appeal to religion that's the problem. I think it's more his appeal to fear, ie re-elect me or next thing you know you will all be forced into gay marriages! <g>
Your theory also assumes of course that his actual goals ever had anything to do with what he said they were. >Remember way back in 1999 when one of Bush's campaign talking points >was to reject nation building in favor of a military that was built to >"fight and win wars thus preventing war"? Well he's proved himself >wrong. > >Here's The Sad Truth: Every country that's tried to govern from >religion has failed. The failure has a profound psychological effect >on its citizens. It's like giving a dog freedom that has lived in a >cage his whole life: he doesn't know what to do and yearns for the >comfort of authoritarianism. > >The only way the World is going to see it's way out of a clash between >those that want to rule with religion and those that want the people >to rule is if we unite and use nation building to repair failed >states. It's obvious in Iraq that the US is wholly unprepared for >this. > >WW I defeated Monarchies and created the need for "a new world order." > 20 years later WW II defeated authoritarianism. Now it feels as if >we're in a battle to defeat theocracies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211313 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
