UNDERMINING THE WAR

If you need further proof that this administration’s abandonment of clear Geneva guidelines has clearly undermined the war, then read this. The use of religion to taunt and torment the enemy has been going on for a long time now. From smearing inmates with fake menstrual blood, to desecrating the Koran, to forcing one Abu Ghraib prisoner to drink alcohol and eat pork, to burning Muslim corpses facing West … we now have a litany of abuses that are objectively evil and almost designed to lose us support among the broad Muslim population. And we have military academies that have been found to be over-run by religious zealots – and a leading general, Boykin, never disciplined for saying that ours is a war of the Christian God versus the Muslim God. When you do not stamp out religious bigotry at its base, when you give it a wink in politics and in warfare, you make these kinds of incidents inevitable. Pass the McCain Amendment.