As Orwell put it, “[W]e have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
Whether Bush remembers it or not, we need to remember that this World War is a religious war. It doesn’t matter that we don’t want it to be one. It takes willful blindness not to see that, to the enemy, that’s precisely what it is.
Religion can’t be reasoned with. That’s why religious wars are the longest and bloodiest.
“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.”
–Edward De Bono
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