UN as a providential instrument?(INSIDER REPORT)

"With the rekindling of his Christian faith, President Bush clearly sees the purpose of the United States and its global mission through the United Nations," commented former State Department official Patrick Mendis in the June 1 Washington Times. "For this mission," Mendis continues, using language better suited to a script written by North Korea's government-controlled press, "America needs to support the reform-minded president to advance his global agenda because he manifests himself as an instrument of higher power as reflected in our credo, annuit coeptis, 'providence has favored our undertakings.'"

Mendis, whose rapturous enthusiasm for the Dear Leader's bold global vision wreaks havoc with his prose, continues: "We need a global body that transcends universal values that are essentially enshrined in the American founding documents--which are indeed spiritual.... Now is the time to support Mr. Bush and our congressional leaders to see a greater destiny that has begun in the Middle East and elsewhere. Our intentions are neither colonial nor imperial but to transform the global body into an 'empire of liberty' as Thomas Jefferson visualized for America."

Anne Williamson, writing for Sanders Research Associates (a British geopolitical intelligence service), likewise sees the Bush administration involved in an effort to "reform" the UN--but not in the way that most American ...