Friday, July 27, 2007

Building Support for War with Iran: GOP's Rapture Base

This scary-ass video (embedded below) of people itching to go to war to precipitate their perceived "rapture" -- escape from earth's reality into perfect utopia -- must be seen in its broader context: political support for endless militarism in the Middle East.

The context is the growing chorus of voices ready to strike Iran pre-emptively, even with nuclear weapons (see video 5:09). Support for this sort of terrifying foreign policy is steadfastly rooted in the rapture crowd, drummed up by the likes of Hagee. The Religious Right loons see peace in the Middle East as the work of the Antichrist, so there really is no winning with them. They will oppose all ideas of peace, as they feel it is "the devil's false peace", in favor of jingoistic "support for Israel": how intelligent, to say that you oppose a peace because it is "false" in order to support bellicose pre-emption.