By Ron Lowe Santa Monica
For those still in the dark about (President) Bush and his administration, its agenda and motives: Fundamentalists, unchecked, can destroy not only the World Trade Center, but any country in the world if given the chance. It was fundamentalists that flew airplanes into our buildings and it was another kind of fundamentalism that responded by attacking and occupying Iraq. From President Bush’s first use of the word “crusade,” a fundamentalist mindset has been driving American policies, just as a comparable fundamentalism drives the attacks of our enemies.
Fundamentalism is alive and well in our country's borders, at home in the offices of the White House and the Pentagon (remember Lt. General William Boykin’s comments) as much as in the hills of Afghanistan and desert of Iraq.
The Bush administration and Republicans will only become more extreme as time goes on, if they retain power.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 18, 2007. Read the original PDF.