184 - "It is a road to ruin to too closely tie religion and politics and enforce orthodoxy in both."
Unfortunately, you are correct - and unfortunatly our idiot leaders of both parties stumbled and bumbled their way into it, over many years.
The Muslims don't understand "shock and awe", they just understand it as "Allah made you miss me".
We are in a major religious/cultural war that our great grand children will be fighting.
#192 is for you.