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No, I probably wouldn't. It's that I don't think this vague disagreement is actually that meaningful.

Higher up beliefs have a habit of filtering down. In-coming beliefs have a habit of filtering through. This is what happens in basically every other institution, why do you think the military is special? If anything, in other areas orders from on high are much less binding than in the military.

I think this is an overestimate of the influence of religion over group behavior and also a massive failure to understand the inner workings of other religions.

I'm not particularly focused on it- I didn't consider it worth a thread and I don't really think it's aberrant, just another aspect of this general trend. I mentioned it in the context of the existing discussion of the politicization and politics of the military on this site, both in this thread...

Not to say this as a mark against Catholics, by any means, but evangelical Christians, who are competitive with mainline Protestants in numbers and IIRC probably actually outnumber them when it comes to actual church attendees have similar and frequently more conservative stances on these issues...

I did read the document. Nothing I said is wrong, either, although I am focusing on the parts that I find worrying and objectionable. As @Marduk points out, the definition of left wing political extremism is much more narrow that it is for Patriot extremism, and only includes those who are...

"Politics isn't about pointing out hypocrisy and double standards, politics is about winning."

Correlates with Arab, though.

Since it was before he was in office and he actually took that stance before Gore did, I think it was more an attempt to outflank the Dems to the left than it was folding to them, but that's broadly speaking arguably the same phenomena.

Interestingly enough, prior to the attack Bush actually called for a reduction in racial profiling, which may have contributed to the circumstances that allowed the terrorist attack to take place.

That's what I assumed. I think you're overthinking it to an extent. In the post-WW2 modern moral framework, Hitler is the incarnation of ultimate evil. Churchill may have been making a quip, but I suspect if asked to pick between Hitler and the devil, most liberals and right liberals, even those...

At the time, or now?

Literally every president I can remember has been. Bush was, Obama was, Trump was.

I don't know what you're saying here.

Of interest on this topic, here is a DARPA document reported on by Politico about "extremism" in the military. Of note is that there definition of Patriot "Extremism" includes anyone who thinks "the US government has become corrupt, has overstepped its constitutional boundaries or is no longer...