It's not a matter of whether or not you like it. It's what has worked for nearly two full centuries. And as the old axiom goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Let me put it this way: my grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Sweden. He raised all of his children with this simple philosophy: You are NOT Swedes here. You are Americans. We keep our traditions at home where they belong, but we are in Rome and we are obliged to do as the Romans do.
If more people did took that simple approach, we would not have half the problems we do today with hyphenated-American this and this "my cultural needs met by the government" bullcrap.
As for the latter part of your message, we've already been through a period where we tried to treat terrorism as a criminal issue. It didn't work.
And I'm hard-pressed to think of any "Christian terrorists" who have killed 3,000 people in one day on U.S. soil.
Nicely said.
"And I'm hard-pressed to think of any "Christian terrorists" who have killed 3,000 people in one day on U.S. soil."
check out some of the civil war threads. they can get ugly and the pro-secessionists have more than a few in their camp that are prone to hyperbole.
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