American Jihad 2014
The New Fundamentalists
By Tom Engelhardt
▻http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175789/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_a_ripley%27s_believe_it_or_not_national_securi
Imagine what we call “national security” as, at heart, a proselytizing warrior religion. It has its holy orders. It has its sacred texts (classified). It has its dogma and its warrior priests. It has its sanctified promised land, known as “the homeland.” It has its seminaries, which we call think tanks. It is a monotheistic faith in that it broaches no alternatives to itself. It is Manichaean in its view of the world. As with so many religions, its god is an eye in the sky, an all-seeing Being who knows your secrets.