Elsie,
I would liken this to render unto Caesar (who was a pagan)the things of Caesar and render unto God the things of God. A perfect analogy being the US (Roosevelt) and Britain (Churchill) having to make an alliance with the evil Soviet Union (Stalin)during the Second World War to deal with the greater evil of the Tripartite Axis (Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo). Not desirable to them but necessary for Western survival. But we’ll have to see.
Indeed!
I liked this line in Charlie Wilson's War...
The Zen master says, 'We shall see.'