Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> But is it a religious war form the Bush government's
> (USA) perspective?
> The fact that Osama bin Laden is a fundamentalist
> and his war is
> religious is easy enough for anyone to see. 

>From the point of view of one side -- bin Laden's --
it is undeniably a religious war.  Which is not to say
that some of his fighters may have other motivations
-- revenge for friends or relatives or others killed
by the US and its proxies, perhaps, among many other
possible motivating factors. 

Likewise, many factors motivate Bush and his followers
to wage war, beyond the reasons stated in Bush
propaganda -- re-election in 2004, the political
agenda of his born-again Christian buddies, the need
for his corporate cronies to boost profits by blowing
up stuff and rebuilding it, etc. 

The fact that Muslims around the world view the
struggle in which they engage Bush as a religious war
makes it a religious war, whether the US wants to
acknowledge it or not.


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