[Devongone]

Oh dear Pooch, how can you be so optimistic about Chesterfield and so pessimistic about the world?

I think perhaps you should try to define US. I think US is a myth. There are so many things that divide and differentiate between US the term becomes meaningless. You either include everyone who is on your side at that particular moment or exclude everyone but yourself.

We talk about Islamic terror ...... Its biggest victims by a huge margin in terms of religion are Muslim.

We talk about Iraq for instance as though we understand it, but Shia and Sunni violently oppose each other, the Kurds want a separate state and once you start looking there are lots of other religions and sects and actual cultures ........ and they all think they are US too.

The trouble with choosing intolerance over tolerance is it ends in the concentration camp, it ends in G4S beating up and abusing detainees, it ends with black people being massively over-represented in the prison population and dying on the streets of America and Britain. I know you don't want that or think like that Pooch ...... but who are these people in robes? Is it the Rabbi, the faithful coming from a mosque, a Buddhist, or maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury, or a monk or a nun who is most medieval?