David Klinghoffer: A Judgment Observed Does Not a Theocracy Make

David Klinghoffer writing in The Forward about those who can't tell the mishpat from the chok,

Some members of America’s political and cultural elite have been having a tough time lately distinguishing between the political philosophy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and that of our country’s religious conservatives. Ahmadinejad is a classic theocrat whose regime subjects his country to religious law. Can we say the same of a Christian like George W. Bush?

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