NO, what Pat is saying, and I agree with, is that the most dangerous thing that can happen is for GW to cast this war in a religious context. Pat is 100% dead on right! Bush is approaching this war as a dirty job that he has been burdened with do to his election as President and CIC. If he approached it in any other way he would be un-fit for the job he is in. He is NOT a Crusader, he is the Commander In Chief of the United States of America and he is defending this nation. It is a TERRIBLE responsibility that he has taken. War is not sport or a way to assert religious beliefs. We have an enemy that uses terrorism and war to please their "God” and I don't want to be the flip side of that coin. This is NOT a religious war and I am damn glad it is not because it is really dangerous to count on God being on our side.
Yet, in his sense that we must avoid war with militant Islam, lest we find ourselves at war with all Islam, President Bush is surely right.In the last century, America was threatened by a global communist revolution. Avoiding all-out war, we outlasted it. And we can outlast this Islamist revolution. What we must avoid is a war of faiths, a war of civilizations between Islam and America. And those who propagandize for such a war are the unwitting or willful collaborators of Osama bin Laden.
-Pat Buchanan, December 2, 2002
Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29838