Sunday, January 11, 2009
Faith as a Covert Operation?
Not at all hard to believe if you're talking about Bushes (h/t truthout).
“The spy argot here is suggestive,” [Russ] Baker writes. “In the Bush milieu, an intelligence mentality spills over not just into politics but even into dealings with the church-based right. Domestic political constituencies,” he warns, “have replaced the citizens of Communist countries as a key target of American elites. They seek to win hearts and minds of devout Christians through quasi-intelligence techniques.”War's not the only thing that's a continuation of politics by other means. For some people, religion is as well.
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Under Wead’s tutelage, Poppy would learn the ins and outs of the evangelical world. But Poppy and W. had a problem in common. Baker writes that they knew that W.’s “behavior before becoming governor [of Texas in 1994] his partying, his womanizing, and in particular his military service problems—posed a serious threat to his presidential ambitions. Their solution was to wipe the slate clean—through religious transformation.”
Tabula Chimpa!
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