>So what is this conflict all about? The evangelical Christians who are among the largest of the Republican Party's voting blocs believe that the biblical "end

>So what is this conflict all about? The evangelical Christians who are among the largest of the Republican Party's voting blocs believe that the biblical "end times" are nigh, but Jesus Christ won't return to bring peace and prosperity until the middle east is destroyed by war[0][2][3] (often called armageddon[1]). And, as Peter Medawar (quite correctly) observed[4] some years ago: The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together. I'd suggest drawing your own conclusions (as the above is only part of the story -- fossil fuels, islamophobia and good old-fashioned bigotry fill things out somewhat -- and not the entirety of it) based on the enormous amount of information you can glean from public sources. [0] https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/booklets/the-middle-east-in-prophecy/content https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/booklets/the-middle-east-in-p... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon [2] https://harvest.org/resources/gregs-blog/post/israel-iran-bible-prophecy-update/ https://harvest.org/resources/gregs-blog/post/israel-iran-bi... [3] https://theconversation.com/as-iran-war-expands-some-conservative-christians-interpret-the-conflict-through-biblical-prophecies-277488 https://theconversation.com/as-iran-war-expands-some-conserv... [4] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1064507 https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1064507