"Marxism is a religion," wrote the economist Joseph Schumpeter (1942, 5), who used the equadon to explain the political ideology's seductive appeal. Schumpeter's insight and argument apply equally well to the ideology of democratic fundamentalism that is manifest in U.S. foreign policy. "To the believer," democratic fundamentalism, like Marxism, "presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from ...

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