A Modern Crusade. "It was an e-mail we weren't meant to see. ... [W]e're not supposed to know the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios." Read.

Reminds me of what Bush said when Bob Woodward asked him how he thought history would judge the Iraq war? Bush: "We won't know. We'll all be dead."