Mark Steyn is understandably confused about our warfighting guidance:
This is one for the “too stupid to survive” files: U.S. Army Labeled Evangelicals, Catholics as Examples of Religious Extremism.
When I first saw the headline, I assumed it must all be a little less obviously bone-crushingly stupid or at any rate more nuanced once you got into the story. But I invite you to look at the accompanying poster for the Equal Opportunity training brief issued by the Army Reserve in Pennsylvania. It lists “extremist” groups, starting with “Evangelical Christianity” at Number One, “Al Quaeda” (misspelled under any Roman rendering of Arabic) at Number Five, “Hamas” at Six, and “Catholicism” rounding out the Top Ten.
We continue to try to sort-of fight some guys who kind-of are our enemy (if I can be forgiven for being so judgmental).
Meanwhile, those other guys--number 5 on the list--have no doubts or confusion as they continue to try to kill us with only a vague notion of how that gets them to the all-powerful Islamic caliph stage of their plan for world domination.
Just why do we hate us, anyway?
We are so screwed.
