Thanks to
Blog from the Capital for highlighting an article in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books.
Gary Wills writes a stinging review of President George W. Bush's policies titled
A Country Ruled By Faith. His thesis, detailed in the article, is:
Bush promised his evangelical followers faith-based social services, which he called "compassionate conservatism." He went beyond that to give them a faith-based war, faith-based law enforcement, faith-based education, faith-based medicine, and faith-based science. He could deliver on his promises because he stocked the agencies handling all these problems, in large degree, with born-again Christians of his own variety.
Extending his critique to the Iraq war, Wills concludes:
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war.
