the political correctness of Bush

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Political correctness is so engrained in American culture now
that it includes Bush and his mad crewe. 

It explains their view of Islam: it's a religion therefore it
is as good as any other religion. 

Another of Bush's subconscious assumptions is that of 
American meliorism, the belief that "it can/will get better"
or "there's a fix for everything". This is a false belief
just as Manicheanism is the false belief that evil is
regnant in human affairs.

American meliorism and evangelical Christianity are of
course inextricably intertwined, even though there are
many secular Americans who are subconscious believers
in meliorism.

Experts in Islamic culture/religion explain that unlike
Christianity, there is scriptural authority in the 
Quran which exhorts to terrorism. For example:

     I will instill terror
     Into the hearts of the Unbelievers:
     Smite ye above the necks
     And smite all their
     Finger-tips off them
           (Quran, Sura 8, verse 12)

Instructions followed very closely by the hijackers with
box cutters.

Actually there are similar remarks in the Old 
Testament but happily not many take these instructions 
literally.

So some pious Moslems (statistically many hundreds of 
thousands of the billion point 5 Moslems) are very 
dangerous, indeed walking timebombs.

So the notion of invading a Moslem Arab country to 
make it over into a Western-style democracy (a form of 
government which has never been seen in Arab countries) 
and doing it not by proxy but by sending Infidel 
soldiers to do it, is so crazy an idea that I didnt 
believe it would happen (before it DID happen).

The notion that everything can be made better, the 
notion that all cultures are equal making Iraq a 
credible candidate for democratization are both 
false; I am speaking of Meliorism and political 
correctness. I hadnt realized that Bush too believes 
politically correctly although it was known that he 
was Evangelical thus a meliorist.

A corrolary here is that Iraq may become a worse
"festering sore" even than Viet Nam for America
given enough time and if the resisters resist more 
and more conducting more and more successful attacks. 

Bush can still get re-elected because voting Americans 
are Meliorist enough and politically correct enough 
to believe that the adventure of American forces 
occupying a Moslem Arab country will somehow turn out 
well. It doesn't pay to underestimate Rove.