You Will Anyway: It's Not a Crusade, Huh?

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

It's Not a Crusade, Huh?

As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world.

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"We need to beam messages around the world" about the freedoms Americans enjoy, Kasich said in an interview with NBC News Tuesday.

NBC

Because we haven't lost our freedom from being spied on by our government? Or because only Judeo-Christian values include freedom?

He defended creating a new government agency at a time when fellow Republican presidential candidates discuss eliminating government agencies to making the government smaller.

"There's nobody who's spent more time shrinking government than I have," Kasich, the former head of the House Budget Committee said, adding that not all government programs are equal.

And if that isn't the Republican platform in a nutshell, I don't know what is. The government programs they want are inherently good. The ones they don't want are inherently bad.

The United States already has a government-funded broadcast system in Voice of America, which broadcasts American news and programming abroad.

And to be sure, very pro-American news at that. But it hasn't yet been packaged as Judeo-Christian.

The new agency, which he hasn't yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.

Because Russians aren't Christians? And when did Iran leave the Middle East?

Another brilliant Republican foreign policy presidential candidate.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: Matt Taibbi reported on Kasich in Concord, New Hampshire, earlier this month.

Kasich in person seems like a man ready to physically implode from bitterness at the thought that his carefully laid scheme for power might be undone by a flatulent novelty act like Trump.

Surrounded by reporters in the Concord state offices, Kasich seethes again about the tenor of the race. "I think there are some really goofy ideas out there," he says.

Rolling Stone

UNlike a Judeo-Christian Proselytizing Agency of the US government?

UPDATE:

"Prove you're a Christian." Torquemada and the Inquisition. Salem witch hunts.

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.