You can t debate this without reading it Here it is begin Unholy alliance An unholy alliance is a coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups especially if one is religious for ad hoc or hidden gain Like patronage unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal but unlike patronage by its deceptive nature and often great financial resources an unholy alliance can be much more dangerous to the public interest An early well known use of the term was by Theodore Roosevelt TR TAB To destroy this invisible Government to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day 1912 Progressive Party Platform attributed to TRO Toole Patricia The War of 1912 TIME in Partneship with CNN Jun 25 2006 and quoted again in his autobiographyRoosevelt Theodore An Autobiography XV The Peace of Righteousness Appendix B NEW YORK MACMILLAN 1913 where he connects Trusts and monopolies sugar interests Standard Oil etc to Woodrow Wilson Howard Taft and consequently both major political parties TAB After the breakup of Standard Oil TR lost the election and the unholy alliance he had identified oligopolies of a few big commodities corporations and their political allies continued otherwise undeterred by the mutually beneficial indifference of both major political parties In 1935 retired Marine Major General Smedley Butler described how this unholy alliance influenced U S foreign policy and how his job abroad had been to be a muscle man for big business In 1944 conservative journalist John T Flynn described how this unholy alliance uses religion to sell its agenda abroad to the American public TAB The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny murder rapine and barbarism We are always moving forward with high mission a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells Flynn John T 1944 As We Go Marching p 240 TAB A reference to this unholy alliance today is TAB Unholy Alliance a review by PBS journalist Rev Dr Allen Dwight Callahan of TAB Phillips Kevin 2006 American Theocracy The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Viking Press TAB Other unholy alliances are the subjects of other books TAB Unholy Alliance Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz TAB Unholy Alliance by David Yallop about the international drug trade and resultant political corruption TAB Unholy alliance religion and atrocity in our time by Marc H Ellis TAB Unholy Alliance A History of Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda TAB Still other unholy alliances are found in Bootleggers and Baptists Bruce Yandle Bootleggers and Baptists The Education of a Regulatory Economist Regulation 7 no 3 1983 12 and Dixie Mafia end