Radical by choice

Radical by choice “Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.” Faction? “By faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interest of the community.” So speaketh James Madison - 1787 - in Number 10 of the Federalist papers. Radicals are nothing new; radical Islamists are new. Passion is their common denominator; violence their common theme. What is to be done? The Boston murderers obviously were ( are ) not Americans neither by culture or by acculturation. Unfortunately, our American Republic does not encourage assimilation anymore.