You cant 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 wellknown use of the term was by Theodore Roosevelt TR    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   Progressive Party Platform attributed to TROToole Patricia The War of  TIME in Partneship with CNN Jun   and quoted again in his autobiographyRoosevelt Theodore An Autobiography XV The Peace of Righteousness Appendix B NEW YORK MACMILLAN  where he connects Trusts and monopolies sugar interests Standard Oil etc to Woodrow Wilson Howard Taft and consequently both major political parties    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  retired Marine Major General Smedley Butler described how this unholy alliance influenced US foreign policy and how his job abroad had been to be a muscle man for big business In  conservative journalist John T Flynn described how this unholy alliance uses religion to sell its agenda abroad to the American public    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 wellsFlynn John T  As We Go Marching p     A reference to this unholy alliance today is    Unholy Alliance a review by PBS journalist Rev Dr Allen Dwight Callahan of    Phillips Kevin  American Theocracy The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion Oil and Borrowed Money in the st Century Viking Press    Other unholy alliances are the subjects of other books    Unholy Alliance Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz    Unholy Alliance by David Yallop about the international drug trade and resultant political corruption    Unholy alliance religion and atrocity in our time by Marc H Ellis    Unholy Alliance A History of Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda    Still other unholy alliances are found in Bootleggers and BaptistsBruce Yandle Bootleggers and Baptists The Education of a Regulatory Economist Regulation  no    and Dixie Mafia   end