Omar's and Osama's are just as expansive, just as eschatological, and yet no more crazy than Hitler's dream of the Thousand-Year Reich or Napoleon's of dominion over all Europe.
First, it is too eschatological, too concerned with the second coming of Christ at the world's end to be able to see the relevancies and relativities of politics here and now.
His joy over the eschatological future does not render him blind to the scandalous present.
Robert Wistrich in Jerusalem Post In his book A Lethal Obsession, scholar of anti-Semitism Robert Wistrich argues that "Western decision-makers have not fully internalized the jihadist and eschatological dimensions of Iranian policy - the full implications of its underlying...