George Bush's Faith-Based Foreign Policy
By Robert Higgs
February 8, 2003

"as commentator Joseph Stromberg noted, "it must be read to be believed. The strategy amounts to an enormously presumptuous agenda for domination of the entire world, not only overweening in the vast scope of the specific ambitions enumerated but also brazen in the implicit assumption that the president of the United States and his lieutenants are morally entitled to run the planet."

In public statements, President George W. Bush has often avowed his personal religious faith, and from the very beginning of his administration, he has sought to draw churches and other religious organizations into the orbit of the government's provision of goods and services -thus, the so-called faith-based initiatives.

Bush insists that such religious providers have an excellent record in helping drug addicts and others who have gone astray to get their lives back on track. Although the president has yet to announce formally that his foreign policy also relies heavily on faith, this reality has become increasingly clear as his term in office has unfolded. . . . .

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