Suskind on Bush

Ron Suskind's piece in the NY Tiems Magazine (registration required) suggests that the problem with Bush is his muscular Christianity; that is, that he relies so much on faith that he doesn't look at the reality undergirding his actions. Therefore, he doesn't value empirical evidence.
While this is scary, it does not strike me that his problem is Christianity, which is rooted in humility and faith in God (which requires one to admit that they may not always be doing God's will, and to assume fallibility) but rather with the Foucaultian premise that power can be used to reshape reality by mere will. That is, that if we believe strongly enough, what we want will come true, and that if authority is used to make us believe, reality will change for us. In other words, Bush has faith in his faith.
This is bad, because faith has no inherent value. Faith is only valuable to the extent that the object in which we place faith has value. (Faith, by the way, means "trust." In the Christian context, the issue is whether or not you trust God. The idea that faith automatically implies a lack of evidence is false).
This explains Bush's anger at Kerry for "sending mixed messages" and the constant refrain that negative media coverage is hurting the troops in Iraq. Bush is assuming that if we do not report bad news but only the good news, that our belief will, in and of itself, make the Iraq situation work out. Hence, any attempt to criticize the administration hurts the collective psychic consciousness of the nation that is necessary to succeed.
And if we fail, it can always be that we didn't try hard enough, that we didn't believe; never that the object of our belief (Democracy throughout the world, the Bush Admnistration) might not be worthy of it.