LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY roseross)

Not So Fast, Christian Soldiers
Another article about the military and Operation Straight Up ministry.


"Apparently the wonks at the Pentagon forgot that Muslims tend to bristle at the word 'crusade' and thought that what the Iraq war lacked was a dose of end-times theology.

In the end, the Defense Department realized the folly of participating in any Operation Straight Up crusade. But the episode is just another example of increasingly disturbing, and indeed unconstitutional, relationships being forged between the U.S. military and private evangelical groups.

[...] American military and political officials must, at the very least, have the foresight not to promote crusade rhetoric in the midst of an already religion-tinged war. Many of our enemies in the Mideast already believe that the world is locked in a contest between Christianity and Islam. Why are our military officials validating this ludicrous claim with their own fiery religious rhetoric?"