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>>But I don’t lay awake nights worrying that my fellow-citizens or our soldiers in Iraq might read those books or play those games either.

It’s called liberty. Give it a try sometime.<<

That wasn’t what I meant - I think should read and play whatever they want.

There’s a name for that.

If this wasn’t about marketing they could have just sent bibles and cookies to any soldiers they wanted.

But I’m not gonna cry because the army won’t help distribute a wretched game under the cover of religion. If they were being deprived of say... World of Warcraft or Oblivion or any game for which there is actually a demand it might be different. But the army has no obligation to help a commercial enterprise for which there is no demand.

One could say there is no "demand" for many of the other items shipped routinely by the military to our soldiers. They are sent so our soldiers are remembered from home, so they have books and movies and music and games from home. So they know they are not forgotten.

I'm not sure exactly how we justify a person who we don't trust to play an apocalyptic Christian video game (basically Quake with Christians vs. Antichrist-align U.N. soldiers) but then we expect at the same time that their judgment is adequate to be turned loose daily to patrol Baghdad in armored vehicles with automatic weapons. There are people on this thread that don't seem to have much confidence in our troops who are an extremely well-behaved bunch who are remarkably sensitive to the cultural divides between themselves and the Iraqi peoples and the terrorists and sectarian fighters they face.

Me, I think our troops are sophisticated enough to handle an XBox game. I'm willing to trust their judgment and discretion.