Paul McDonald had a commentary on local NPR today. He was giving some good thoughts about 9/11 until the end when he began telling the public all of the things he was disappointed with in how Americans have responded. He said he was troubled by the "self-appointed cultural monitors who have simplified the nature of terrorism by reducing it to a particular religion whose founder, himself, was a terrorist."{as best as I can remember his exact words} This blew me away. You could tell that his voice took on an edge because he was really bothered by the "monitors." Contrast this with Albert Mohler's blog today.
This just shows that though we can come together as "Americans" and be upset about fanatics murdering thousands of our people on our soil, it is a false union. It is like -5 and 5 hooking up and being proud that both of their absolute values is [5]. They might talk to one another, but if they actually came together, they would be exact opposites. In the practical, day to day life of numbers, they will never get along.
Same way with the horribly divergent dominant worldviews of Americans. One side sees an attack on our nation and very existence. The other simplifies the issue to one of a just response by a poor people to the evil empire and just wants everyone to forget about it so we can move on with extreme reality-denying liberal progressivism. There will be civil war in my lifetime.