And you're playing the "anyone who disagrees with my excessive cynicism is naive" card. I'll skip the seriously-trolly war-on-terror thing, and go straight to

And you're playing the "anyone who disagrees with my excessive cynicism is naive" card. I'll skip the seriously-trolly war-on-terror thing, and go straight to the other one... really? No politician really cares about the Ground Zero Mosque? Millions of non-politicians care about it, but the political class is all too sophisticated and is only pretending to care? I think you overestimate the sophistication of the political class. (Not wanting to discuss the mosque itself, merely the question of whether any politician really cares about it.)