The game, the Bible and other accouterments just don’t seem to interfere with the military’s mission nor do they interfere with morale, leadership and so forth.
What seems to have happened is the powers that be have decided to be nicey nice about the UN and Muslims and to lean backwards in not making pejorative comments.
As far as the rest of it goes, I agree. However, while the video game may not interfere with the current mission, the Pentagon is probably concerned that it might interfere with future missions.
For example, not in a historical context, but in a modern or future context, how would the Pentagon react if there was a video game in which US soldiers, the good guys, were fighting bad guys who were French, German and British soldiers in an EU army? How about fighting Mexican and Canadian army? Hippie anti-war Democrats and ethnic street gangs?
While it might make for an interesting video game, to say the least, it would really transcend the purpose of recreation in the military, and starts to go places the Pentagon does not want to go.
What if the soldiers were sent video games of them fighting *Christians* in the US, in an anti-Christ, or even a martial law scenario? I suspect that game would be VERY off-limits with severe punishment for use and distribution. (I’m actually surprised some video game company hasn’t thought of that idea already.)
The Pentagon would come down on it like a ton of bricks, for the main reason that it would strongly piss off LOTS of Christian soldiers and the public, and the press would go into a lather hoping to bash both the military *and* Christians.
I kind of agree with the Pentagon that while recreation as a rule is good and useful, if it gets soldiers worked up or angry, it is probably not a good thing. Let them stick to killing zombies and space aliens in their video games. Those two groups, at least, are underrepresented in congress. I hope.