Friday, March 07, 2003
The Evangelist President
I've read quite a few more articles lately about how President Bush uses religious rhetoric in his speeches. I don't think it's a secret that the President is a Christian man and he likes to point to his study of scripture as the reason he was able to overcome his problems with alcohol. I doubt that anyone would have a problem with that. What we should have a problem with is his increased use of a God-on-our-side U.S. as an instrument of unilateral policy. This not only stems to war with Iraq but to other issues the U.S. refuses to endorse that have international support like Kyoto, the Biological Weapons Protocol, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to name a few. The impending war with Iraq is most troublesome, not because it's neccessarily unjust but it seems that Mr. Bush honestly believes that God is indeed on the side of the U.S. He's convinced that his work as president is inspired by his one true god. Isn't this the kind of thinking in other countries, more pointedly countries of muslim faith-based leaderships, that we currently frown upon as being tolitarian in nature? Just a thought.
I've read quite a few more articles lately about how President Bush uses religious rhetoric in his speeches. I don't think it's a secret that the President is a Christian man and he likes to point to his study of scripture as the reason he was able to overcome his problems with alcohol. I doubt that anyone would have a problem with that. What we should have a problem with is his increased use of a God-on-our-side U.S. as an instrument of unilateral policy. This not only stems to war with Iraq but to other issues the U.S. refuses to endorse that have international support like Kyoto, the Biological Weapons Protocol, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to name a few. The impending war with Iraq is most troublesome, not because it's neccessarily unjust but it seems that Mr. Bush honestly believes that God is indeed on the side of the U.S. He's convinced that his work as president is inspired by his one true god. Isn't this the kind of thinking in other countries, more pointedly countries of muslim faith-based leaderships, that we currently frown upon as being tolitarian in nature? Just a thought.
