Catsfive, thank you for the relevant posts! This is the conversation we have at home -- who are the best leaders in a world gone crazy?

I personally would rather be born in a country where decapitation, torture, etc. is an unacceptable approach to disagreement (middle east) or where liberal protestors are free to rape, burn, pillage, and murder in the name of freedom. Some have said he has a "Might is Right" philosophy -- I think as this article suggests, he has a "Christian Morality is Right and one must be willing to take up a sword to protect it" philosophy.