Yes, that is worrisome, Carol....but I think that what people are mostly dying for right now are the same old classic issues of empire that people have been dying for for thousands of years. They may say it's about religion, but it's usually about imperial ambitions and the struggle for control of markets, land, and resources...and the control of governments.

Bush has been using religion as a handy propaganda device...as a motivator and a vote-getter...he may even find that it motivates him on a personal basis...but what Bush's administration has really been fighting for is control of oil, markets, and strategic resources. He's been fighting to control various energy-supplying regions of the world on behalf of a bunch of mega-corporations.

That's not a religious issue, it's a financial and imperial issue. Sure, they'll use religion to motivate many of the fighters, but they are not fighting for religious purposes at all...they are fighting for the material things of this world, things which they wish to control and benefit from.

Whoever next occupies the Oval Office, he is going to be concerned with that same imperial agenda....and THAT is what worries me.