Bush faith based initiatives and the many evangelical freedom forums tightly knit to the White House has always made me feel that the Bush Rove model led this country down a path of religious fundamentalism designed to divide this country.

A military state that can rely on religious zealots to believe that to even question our numerous wars is tantamount to traitorous sedition, is a miltary state sanctified by God and beyond oversight.
Some call it jihad against the infidels and others call it a war on terror.

But to clarify my previous remarks it is true that radical positions such as standing up for the poor and fair religions and oversight over hate filled religious movements is dangerous BUT not nearly as dangerous in the USA as it is in Pakistan.

Pakistan is larger than Russia. They have more people than Russia. They have some Russian missle technology and 25+ nukes of their own.
Pakistan is no small potatos.