Apocalyptic Violence

With no definition of victory in the war on terrorism, the U.S. may be entering a long period of perpetual war. The president invokes the name of God on a regular basis. Clearly, with such power on our side, how can we lose? Al-Qaeda and the Islamists are also certain that the almighty is in their corner. Can God be hedging his bets and backing both sides? Each day brings new reports of gai0ns in Iraq. Parts of towns and cities are destroyed in order to save them. U.S. military commanders claim the enemy is Satan. Buried in the back pages was a report from The Lancet, the respected British journal, conservatively estimating that more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed, over half of them women and children.

Recorded at Amherst College.