In parliamentary systems, when a nation like Britain was faced with a deadly threat, competing parties tended to form unity governments – because "the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully."  In deadly crises, American politics also swings toward unity.  In the face of the Hitler/Tojo war, Republicans reluctantly joined FDR and Truman in a united front.  Republicans and Democrats also cooperated, at least in public, in the face of the Soviet threat. But with the Vietnam War, our political center broke apart, when the left drove repeated wedges into the American consensus, setting blacks against whites, women against men, gays against families, urbanites against Christianity, everybody against the rich, and so on. That is how the left-Islamist axis has been able to elect an ideological radical like Obama, driving their united phalanx to split the American body politic.  Deliberate splitting is what we've seen...(Read Full Article)