I don't understand the American mentality.

I am not American, but I am a North American. For the last several years I have been trying to understand the collective American psyche, personality or whatever you want to call it. I want to know why American do the things they do, especially American Christians. I want to know what it is about George W. Bush that the American Christian loves. Is it because he calls himself a Christian or is it because he says he will push (perhaps protect, becuase apperently he does that very well) the Christian (traditional) way of life? Having asked that, what is the Christian(traditional) way of life? Is the Christian way of life to wage war so that the right to profit from it can exist only for the greedy few that most Americans (mainly the right of center, Christians)seem to elect? I thought Christianity was about loving people. I thought Christianity was about salvation. When did Christianity become about politics? When did Christianity become about legislating a set of spiritual beliefs? Have not Christians learned lessons from history? The Spanish Inquistion, the Holy Crusades, etc. Did these events in history not teach Christians that Christianity is not about forcing your beliefs on others. Christianity is not of a Taliban order.