Glenn Greenwald today provides a chilling review of an account of a White House dinner honoring pro-Imperialism "historian" Andrew Roberts. It was a neo-con all-star event with superstars like Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Mona Charen, Kate O'Beirne and Paul Gigot. Bush's unpopularity doesn't matter, according to this august group, because the Big Guy upstairs is on his side.
The most critical priority is to convince the President to continue to ignore the will of the American people and to maintain full-fledged loyalty to the neoconservative agenda, no matter how unpopular it becomes.
To do this, they have convinced the President that he has tapped into a much higher authority than the American people -- namely, God-mandated, objective morality -- and as long as he adheres to that (which is achieved by continuing his militaristic policies in the Middle East, whereby he is fighting Evil and defending Good), God and history will vindicate him