[lbo-talk] More on Rapture Christians and the WH

[Carl Remick]

>From: snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
>
>Apocalypse Please
>
>US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. 
>It's time we took it seriously.
>
>By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th April 2004
>
>... The electoral calculation, crazy as it appears, works like this. 
>Governments stand or fall on domestic issues. For 85% of the US electorate, 
>the Middle East is a foreign issue, and therefore of secondary interest 
>when they enter the polling booth. For 15% of the electorate, the Middle 
>East is not just a domestic matter, it's a personal one: if the president 
>fails to start a conflagration there, his core voters don't get to sit at 
>the right hand of God. Bush, in other words, stands to lose fewer votes by 
>encouraging Israeli aggression than he stands to lose by restraining it. He 
>would be mad to listen to these people. He would also be mad not to.

What wacky times these are.  Whatever happened to material forces as the 
engine of history?

Carl

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