"Al Qaeda . . . He's just like them."

right after hitting "publish" on the previous "dry drunk" post, i ran across a piece by ron suskind from the october 17, 2004, nyt... it's been quoted extensively but one snippet in particular deserves to be repeated...

''[Bush] truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis."

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''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . . ''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' [Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush] went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.''

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