Christian neocons’ silence on calamitous effect of democracy on Iraqi Christians
Carol Iannone writes:
I was listening to EWTN’s coverage of the papal visit with commentary by Fr. John Neuhaus and others. Much of Neuhaus’s commentary has been very valuable, but at one point he kind of boasted that the leftish hope that the pope would confront Bush on Iraq had been entirely displaced, and that of course Benedict had evidently done no such thing in his meeting with the president. But then one of the other commentators said, quite innocently, that the real problem in Iraq was that Christians were being horribly harassed and persecuted. Neuhaus had no answer to this and the conversation just went on to another topic. LA writes:
Curious how, just as the Jewish neocons married themselves to President Bush’s insane Muslim democracy agenda, which among other things handed Gaza to Hamas, and so gave up caring about Israel’s security, Catholic neocons in similar fashion are indifferent to how Muslim democracy has been ruinous to Christians in Muslim lands. It seems that any intellectual and moral life the neocons may once have had, has been supplanted by a single, remorseless idee fixe: Bush and Democracy uber alles. Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 19, 2008 01:59 PM | Send Email entry |