Bush's Messiah Complex --- "Call it Messianic Militarism"

[kpete]

COMMENT | Bush's Messiah Complex
When George W. Bush ran for President in 2000, he said the United States must be "humble" in the world. Now he has cast humility aside and replaced it with hubris. Supremely confident in his gut instincts, wrapped up in a fundamentalist belief system, endowed with the most powerful military of all time, and unchecked by Congress, Bush feels he can "rid the world of evil"--at the barrel of a gun.

A picture emerges from the President's public statements--and even from such adulatory accounts as Bob Woodward's Bush at War and David Frum's The Right Man--of a President on a divine mission.

Call it messianic militarism.

He may have discarded the word "crusade," but it's a crusade that he's on. As former Bush speechwriter Frum puts it, "War has made him . . . a crusader after all."

While there's nothing wrong with a President trying to make the world a better place, when the man in the Oval Office feels divinely inspired to reshape the world through violent means, that's a scary prospect.

http://www.progressive.org/~progress/?q=node/1344

[handsignals4theblind]

1. AMerica is an Imperial nation-case closed

Seems certain,aging historians always liked to tell you how the United STates had to live up to it's International role by living up to it's responsibility>

Bullshit--let's forget the war on Indians and slavery--since the fake sinking of the USS Maine that started the Spanish/ American war--imperialsic grab for Cuba, and a bloody decades war in the PHillipines---the the Gulf of Tonkin deception in Vietnam til today>

Assassinations, coups, proxy militias, etc-have nothing to do with democracy!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Welcome to DU, glad you see through all the BS and subterfuge

that has enabled Amurka to quite literally take over much more than just its teeny tiny continental acreage.