That’s sure what it sounded like when he met up with Fox News’ Sean Hannity the other night:
Transcript:
HANNITY: Can you talk to rogue dictators? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, wants to wipe Israel off the map, is seeking nuclear weapons.
WARREN: Yes.
HANNITY: I think we need to take him out.
WARREN: Yes.
HANNITY: Am I advocating something dark, evil or something righteous?
WARREN: Well, actually, the Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped. And I believeâÂ?¦
HANNITY: By force?
WARREN: Well, if necessary. In fact, that is the legitimate role of government. The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
And here I was thinking that the only evangelical who bought into the “evildoers” language was one George W. Bush.
Strikes me that Warren (who’s generally an all-around pretty good guy) needs to be careful here that he doesn’t slip into Pat Robertson territory (he knows better), who advocated the assassination of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Andrew Sullivan thinks he’s already there. And the guys over at Think Progress are a bit nervous, as well.
