George Soros, Planetary Messiah

Opinion Journal has a fascinating profile of billionaire George Soros; I'm filing it under "politics" because this guy is probably the largest single donor to Democrat politics in the country. Who is George Soros?

"I have made rejection of the Bush doctrine the central project of my life," announced George Soros in January. "I am determined to do what I can," he added, to assure that President Bush is not re-elected.

Coming from someone else, such statements might be written off as delusional, but Mr. Soros is a man with a record of achieving outsized goals. A financier who began with a stake of a few thousand dollars, he traded and speculated his way to a fortune of many billions, making him one of the world's richest men. ...

As an alternative to the arrogance of American supremacy secured by means of military power, Mr. Soros proposes the "Soros doctrine." Through the good agency of the United Nations and our own foreign-aid efforts, he writes, we need to answer our enemies not with force of arms but with "preventive action of a constructive nature."

What explains this surpassing faith in the efficacy of international governance and institutions, especially in light of the record of such institutions in recent years, not to say over the past century? ...

Cold as he is toward the Jewish people, Mr. Soros is not much warmer toward his adopted country. "I had never quite become an American," he once said. Now he complains that today's America "is not the America I chose as my home," as if, by turning conservative and electing George W. Bush as President, the country has failed to live up to him.

The egotism of the remark is revealing. Mr. Soros has admitted to having "carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Having made his mark, he now seems to give them free rein. He told one interviewer that he had "godlike, messianic ideas," and another that he sometimes thought of himself as "superhuman." To still a third he explained that his "goal is to become the conscience of the world."

Sounds like a brilliant nutcase to me.

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Opinion Journal has a fascinating profile of billionaire George Soros; I'm filing it under \"politics\" because this guy is probably the largest single donor to Democrat politics in the country. Who is George Soros?

\"I have made rejection of the Bush doctrine the central project of my life,\" announced George Soros in January. \"I am determined to do what I can,\" he added, to assure that President Bush is not re-elected. \n\nComing from someone else, such statements might be written off as delusional, but Mr. Soros is a man with a record of achieving outsized goals. A financier who began with a stake of a few thousand dollars, he traded and speculated his way to a fortune of many billions, making him one of the world's richest men. ...\n\nAs an alternative to the arrogance of American supremacy secured by means of military power, Mr. Soros proposes the \"Soros doctrine.\" Through the good agency of the United Nations and our own foreign-aid efforts, he writes, we need to answer our enemies not with force of arms but with \"preventive action of a constructive nature.\" \n\nWhat explains this surpassing faith in the efficacy of international governance and institutions, especially in light of the record of such institutions in recent years, not to say over the past century? ...\n\nCold as he is toward the Jewish people, Mr. Soros is not much warmer toward his adopted country. \"I had never quite become an American,\" he once said. Now he complains that today's America \"is not the America I chose as my home,\" as if, by turning conservative and electing George W. Bush as President, the country has failed to live up to him.\n\nThe egotism of the remark is revealing. Mr. Soros has admitted to having \"carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.\" Having made his mark, he now seems to give them free rein. He told one interviewer that he had \"godlike, messianic ideas,\" and another that he sometimes thought of himself as \"superhuman.\" To still a third he explained that his \"goal is to become the conscience of the world.\"

Sounds like a brilliant nutcase to me.