religious wars

[prozak at anus.com]

> >It is too simple to explain the upcoming war as 'blood for oil', as did 
> >millions of placards last weekend, for Rove and Wolfowitz are ideologists 
> >beyond the imperatives of profit. They represent an unlikely and 
> >formidable alliance forged between the gritty Texan Republicans who took 
> >over America, fuelled by fierce conservative Christianity, and a faction 
> >of the East Coast intelligentsia with roots in Ronald Reagan's time, 
> >devoted to achieving raw, unilateral power.
> 
> cont.at http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,901066,00.html
> 
> This is the missing factor as far as I'm concerned - it isn't that all the 
> other reasons for this threatened war don't make sense - they just never 
> added up to 100% for me.  

I've always seen this as a religious war. Even the rhetoric is, if 
one looks underneath the ostensible (democratic globalist values) and 
its anima (oil) and the reasons in the wings (water) - there's a 
strong ideological current dating back to before the crusades :)

Wasn't Pynchon paranoid about Masonic conspiracies?


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