[jeffc]

but for the US to view it as a holy war goes against what even the Founders thought.

I don't understand. Please explain.

[antiRepublicrat]

Even after our war with the Barbary Pirates we didn’t make it a holy war, and we said so. We fight only to retain the security of the nation, not to enforce the Bible. Our country has no intrinsic animosity to anyone because of religion.