Losing us at "Hello"

The reason why the kook left and anti-war set was never able to gain any real traction in recent years is probably best exemplified in case here involving General Patraeus’ endorsement of a religious book, saying “Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel” “…should be in every rucksack for those time when soldiers need spiritual energy.”

Reasonable people can argue whether or not a figure in the person of General Patraeus (BwD’s ’07 Man of the Year) is acting in an appropriate manner when he makes endorsements like this, especially using the word, “should”.

Mikey Weinstein (no snark here, that’s the dude’s name), head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation had this to say in a statement to Military.com:

"General Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism,"

We would’ve settled for poster child of the Surge or the quintessential military leader in 21st century counter-insurgency warfare but that for “fundamentalist Christian religious predation”….? Impressive, indeed.

And Mikey’s proposed solution: "He should still be relieved of duty and court martialed,"

Here’s our proposed solution: Mikey takes his bed-pan and a nice steaming cup of shut-the-hell-up and goes home to never be heard from again. What a tool.

Is it any wonder why no one takes these people seriously.

H/T: Foxfier