Influence of Dispensationalism and Zionism in U.S. Politics

According to Stephen Sizer's Book, Christian Zionism, Ronald Reagan's Dispensationalist views affected his political outlook. "In 1986, when tensions grew between the US and Libya, James Mills, by then President pro tem of the California State Senate, claimed Reagan expressed strong animosity towards Libya because he saw it as 'one of the prophesied enemies of Israel and therefore an enemy of God's. Mills noted the logical consequences of Reagan's pessimistic and deterministic dispensational presuppositions for American politics:

"Certainly his attitudes relative to military spending, and his coolness to all proposals for nuclear disarmanent, are consistent with such apocalyptic views...Armageddon, as foreseen in the  books of Ezekiel and Revelation, cannot take place in a world that has been disarmed...It is contrary to God's plan as set forth in his word...The Presidents's domestic and monetary policies, too, are in harmony with a literal interpretation of the biblical prophecies. There is no room to get wrought up about the national debt if God is soon going to foreclose on the whole world. ..Why be concerned about conservation? Why waste time and money preserving things for future generations when everything is going to come to a fiery end with this one? ...It follows, that all domestic programs, espcially those that entail capital outlay, can and should be curtailed to free up money to finance the development of nuclear weapons....