Is American foreign policy always a cool rational neoliberal calculation or do the delusions of the general public have meaningful impact?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    People are prone to forget how batshit religious Dubya was. It seems to me that Cheney wanted war and he wanted to grift. But Dubya was a believer and he probably thought he talked to God once in a while.

    Bush, Gog and Magog | Andrew Brown | The Guardian

    Just when you thought it couldn’t get crazier, a well-sourced story claims Bush invaded Iraq because of Bible prophecies

    10 Aug 2009

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    When I was dumb teenager - Jimmy Carter used a phrase like “pray on it” and I didn’t know if he meant that seriously. I asked my mom about it and I was taken aback to learn he actually meant it literally. His religiosity surprised me and my mom too.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      People have utterly formatted their mental hard drives in regards to George W. Bush. So much of Gen-X and below generation was shaped by W. In the same way Regan is the devil and reason everything sucks, W is also the devil and reason everything sucks.

      He totally used the cross ✝️ to carry all his war on terror and by extension his foreign policy