Bloodthirsty

I am truly flabbergasted at the screams for more war, unending war by the neo-conservative punditry (Rush, Hannity, Malkin, etc.). It is almost as though the failed attempt to create democracy and peace with force in Iraq has only whetted the appetite for more of the same. What would it take to convince these people that this is the wrong approach? I am not sure it is possible to convince men and women of faith anything which challenges their idealogy. The neo-cons faith appears to be war. They have an angry god.

It has been rather an eye opener for me to hear some of these guys, Kristol in particular, finally come out and say they want a full blown war of civilizations and religions in the Middle East. I can't help but wonder where the Book of Revelation fits into all this. If they can paint Ahmadinejad and/or Nasrallah as the anti-Christ, perhaps they can finally bring around the Apocolypse everyone has been waiting anxiously for. These guys understand that their lives are failures if it doesn't happen within that fragile span. Better to bring it about sooner than waiting for God to get around to it.

It is really the only explanation I can come up with other than plain Bloodthirstiness. Even greed for oil can't account for it. Get the Jews all back in Israel, start all the countries of the world fighting centered somewhere in the vacinity (or as my sister would say virginity) of Jeruselem and bingo. Rapture, Ascension, Armies of the Lord and all us unbelieving heathens finally get to burn in hell on earth. Scare people.