9) the acts as the honest "broker" among the many u. s. government agencies to solve disagreements and achieve consensus among agencies on national security issues.

everyone knows that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence. this story is part of the conventional wisdom of western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote democracy in the middle east.

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