So a Senator who was too liberal for the Republicans and another who was too conservative for the Democrats advocate, in response to a US citizen lashing out at an Army that, admittedly, displays no tolerance for his religious beliefs, advocate going to war with a country that unwillingly harbors a cleric who this citizen consults? The financial catastrophe is only a facet of our total fuckedness. What a country.  

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."