Bush may not have read Dostoyevsky-but his speechwriters have.

I wouldn't bet money on it.

Because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this
nation

When American soldiers plunder, they say they are "liberating" the
goodies.

Members of this devilish clique have insinuated themselves into the higher
social circles and, Rasputin-like,

Rasputin was a religious fanatic and 'prophet'. Don't underestimate
the possibility of a *real* Rasputin telling Bush "God wants you to
invade Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran; Syria...! God wants you to kill the
heathen!" I long to read the Secret History that gives all the gory
details.

These four neoconservative ideologues, presided over by Rove, are the
21st-century equivalent of Dostoyevsky's revolutionary devils

The Thucydides, the Tacitus, of the Bush administration will have to
explain the strange alliance between the neocons and the religious
right. Is it just a common lust to dominate? Anti-Muslim prejudice?
US Messianism? Beats me.

the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia?

It's hard to imagine Bush as a feminist! Anyway, aren't the problems
of men and women the same everywhere?

"the expansion of freedom in all the world".... the growth of democratic
movements ... ending tyranny in our world"?

An honest Bu****e definition of "freedom," "democracy," "tyranny"
would be very interesting. Probably it amounts to Bush getting his own

way at all times.

If present trends continue, the time should soon be ripe-in 50
years perhaps?-for a horrendous Sino-American confrontation.

Some End Times teachers believe that the Book of Revelation
predicts an inevitable war between the US and China. ch. 9: 15-17
speaks of an army of 200 million men, and, according to the
teachers, this can only be China.

Attacking China would be like Napoleon attacking Russia. Ordinary
Chinese people are not very aggressive, but they are stubborn.

hat American policymakers will likely end up like Dostoyevsky's
revolutionary conspirators -increasingly committed to state
terrorism in pursuit of some utopian vision-seems horribly and
tragically inevitable.

Pride goes before a fall, and the Bushies are nothing if not proud.

Justin Raimondo

Hudley Pearse