The Bush era in US politics is marked by resurgence of evangelical Christianity. The reflection of this evangelism under the leadership of born-again Christians like President Bush in US politics is the spread of neo-conservatism. It is then hardly surprising that the neo-conservationists under the Bush administration have again shouldered the White Men’s burden of cleaning the world of infidels, fundamentalists and terrorists. It is the neo-conservationist America that believes in changing regimes in order to export democracy in countries perceived as threatening to the western mind. The invasion of Afghanistan to topple the Taleban government, occupation of Iraq and hanging of Saddam Hussein, the failure of the Palestinian-Israeli talks leading to the rise of militarist Sharonite era in Israel and Yasser Arafat’s fall from grace in the eyes of the West are all the upshot of the ascendancy of...
Dr. Jason Lisle | 6/1/2005
