I think that this cleric is absolutely right! Certainly tribute is more important than White House tours, air shows, border guards, and all other American events canceled or postponed because of the sequester.
But the tribute is not more important than the monthly vacations enjoyed by our President and his family. Somehow, in spite of the billions in foreign aid that continue, the OMB finds money for vacations.
I’d love to dismiss this cleric as a nut. Unfortunately, the fact that we give ANY aid (let alone hundreds of millions of $$) to people who want to destroy our way of life is, and forever will be, incomprehensible to me.