What Would Jesus Want Bush To Do?

Here's what worries me about George Bush, Iraq, and the delay, until "at least January," of a change in direction.

Some say stupid, some say peevish, some say petty, but pretty much everyone agrees that one thing George Bush is, is incurious:



And, we know Bush has something of an Apocalyptic worldview with a touch of Messiah complex. As Bruce Bartlett said,

" ... this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do ... This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalists. He believes you have to kill them all ... He understands them, because he's just like them ... This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts ... He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms the need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence ... "

Now, this is the man who's going to take the Christmas holidays (and believe me, it's CHRISTMAS holidays in the Bush house) reflecting on whether there should be a change in direction in Iraq. So is he going to listen to the Wise Old Men? Will he withdraw to the ever-shrinking group of loyal sycophants who will tell him what he wants to hear? Will he "get curiosity" and start asking hard questions and learning hard lessons about the havoc his policies have wreaked?

Or is he going to get down on his knees and listen to Jesus ... the same Jesus who supposedly told him that he should be President?