Here it comes, another “Holy War”! (UNCLASSIFIED)

Published On: June 9, 2010|Categories: MRFF's Inbox|1 Comment|

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Mikey,

The evangelicals strike again, this time, they’re making life hell for us. If you can, find a copy of 9 June 2010 issue of “Stars and Stripes”. Page 4, there’s a lovely picture of about 1000+ Afghan Nationals protesting outside a Masque chanting “Death to America, long live Islam!”. Apparently, some U.S. foreign aid group backed by a church in Elkhart, Indiana has been proselytizing down in Mazar-e-Sharif. Now, the Afghans really do believe this is a Holy War and the Taliban, Haqqani Network, H.I.G. are just going to eat this up. This right here Mikey, is a PRIME EXAMPLE of why you keep a Government and its military secular. Do you think that church in Indiana has the slightest inkling of an idea of what this is going to do toward our war effort against the insurgents?! They just legitimized the Taliban’s claim to this all being a religious struggle. They just handed the hearts and minds of the Afghan people right over to the insurgents. This is going to be their new recruiting pitch, I’m telling you! I can’t even begin to estimate how this is going to totally screw our PRT efforts in the country. When will people realize this war is not about religion!? When are they going to realize you CANNOT win an asymmetric fight when you bring religion into the picture!? How many troops, civilian contractors, PRT teams, aid workers, do you think will die because of what this church has done? How far back do you think this is going to set us in the COIN fight? This makes me want to give up on organized religion altogether Mikey. It breaks my heart to say it but it really does. If you have the time and the manpower, could you do me a favor and please relay this message to that church group (without my name, unit, AO, etc). It’s called “Church World Services”. If they want to debate the issue with me, get their phone number and I’ll be more than happy to give them a call if I’m not too busy getting shot at or rocketed cause of this mess.

Respectfully,

(name and rank withheld)

“We make war that we may live in peace…We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”-Aristotle 334 BC

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  1. Pyrrhos June 23, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Religious groups have the patience to muck up anything they think is ripe for proselytizing. It’s just part of their nature to screw up national policy whenever they hear the call to idiocy.

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