A Religiously Based Foreign Policy??

Rick Warren, the best-selling author and minister in California, continues to be a popular fixture on talk shows. Last week, he appeared with Sean Hannity of FOX NEWS. I took this snippet of the interview from a transcript posted on Religious Dispatches.

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 believe…
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.

While not defining his terms too clearly, Hannity seemingly called for the United States to remove Ahmadinejad from power. The options for our country to do that seem to be limited - we try to stage a coup to remove him from power, we assasinate him (either directly or cause to have it done), or we invade Iran. Then, it seems that Rick Warren agrees with the analysis and says that this would fall under the divinely ordained purpose for government. So, the United States, and, I guess by extension, any other "Christian" nation merely has to identify "evildoers" who are leading nations and remove them in any way we can and God will be pleased with us for doing God's will.

Now, I disagree with the interpretation that God commands "good" governments to engage in murder or invasion to topple "evil" governments. I know that the United States has tried this before - as in Cuba and in Iraq, but I still disagree. One of the sticking points to this approach is basic: who gets to decide what governments are evil enough to be the targets of divine justice as administered by "Christian" nations.

Good readers, do you agree with the approach as suggested by Hannity and Warren? Do you think God calls the USA to engage in such activities? Do you think, depending on the measures you use to judge, that the USA is fit to be the administrator of holy justice?