As for your second point, I guess you again correct an oversimplification of mine. There are indeed different fronts in the culture war in America, or different culture wars. What I was trying to say is that the nature of one of the American culture wars is different from anything that is likely to arise in Europe, since the essence of fundamentalism is the rejection of rationality. That is something that simply cannot be accomodated.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns