Max Blumenthal presents a travelog of a sojourn among Christians United For Israel, in which several of the united christians profess their desire to support the state of Israel so that it can play its proper role in the Apocalypse --- ending in, among other things, the immolation or conversion of all world Jewry.

Obviously nuts. But consider. Smart, highly educated, highly placed, intelligent people can and do fall into all sorts of weird cults.

Suppose that the United States government fell into the hands of people who actually thought like this. Ideologically driven people determined to do the lord's work, as they saw it, no matter what the consequences for unbelievers who would be damned regardless. Imagine. How might things be different?