Excellent article. It really reinforces my thoughts on the power of ignorance. Not for the ignorant, of course, but those who benefit from widespread ignorance. Freedom, as used in the current administration, is a blatant Orwellian illustration. Yet, so many genuinely good people have accepted that freedom looks like what the Bush administration prescribes. I hear some of my dearest friends and family casually commenting that the "whole Middle East should be wiped out." The objectification/oversimplification of the situation is maddening and frustrating for me. I explain to some of these critics, some devout Christians, that the Middle East is filled with Christians and diverse ethnicities/cultures, and I get a shocked reaction. How should violence be labeled? One man's spreading of freedom is another man's terrorism. The scary thing, though, is that the people who blindly support our government and everything "America stands for" are acting in a way as if to ensure its untimely demise, as the article so strikingly demonstrates.