  Good luck on your interview. I only hope that all these strategies, while relevant to rational opponents, transfer smoothly when applied to irrational opponents. I'm not entirely convinced that the policymakers in control right now fully understand how different it is when your opponent perceives him- or herself as the servant of God.
Kind of ironic, when one considers how much a certain party insists on using language that suggests that they, and the country, are...the servant of God. I feel both sides, for or against, are presenting only partially convincing arguments. Both sound good to a point, but then they drop off into the la-la land of kneejerk idealistic political party lockstepping -- I follow along for a while, nodding in agreement, until it suddenly seems to me as if out of nowhere the proponent whips out his or her ideological dick and starts waving it around.
I must say, though, that I'm glad we're sending *billions* to Turkey so they'll let us put a base there. I'd hate to think we could have wasted some of that money on collapsing school buildings, kids without health insurance, or parents unable to tend to their mentally ill children. For now, I'll continue to reluctantly support the "war," such as it is; I'll reserve more comprehensive judgment until more time has passed. 
