C’mon you guys, calm down. Please. First, GEN Petreaus is a good guy. As a general, he is obliged to comment on issues like this that the media elevates to international matters. What else is he going to say? Think about it. Everything this guy says will get international press coverage, including the 1.4 billion or so islamic audience. He has to choose his words carefully, and he will always use the best words to keep his couple hundred thousand troops in the field safe.
When people attack him so easily, in my eyes, they put themselves in the same camp as those who call him “general betray-us”. For crying out loud – he’s in charge of the most significant war effort the globe has ever seen.
The troops have no problem with the inscriptions, and were mostly unaware of them until ABC made it a big deal.
Please, have faith in our troopers – they are in the field to protect us. Including their leaders.
As long as the enemy can scream ‘allah akbar’, I reckon our rifles can bear God’s word. There are tens of thousands of these things in the field and in the supply system. We’ll be seeing them for some time to come...
Personally, I’ll support Trijicon AND General P.
Kit!
Thanks Kit. As long as I am considered “the Infidel” by Islam, I’ve got no problem with the Bible quotes.
Those arms are not issued exclusively for this campaign.
This is a non issue.
The less said about this the better, by high level members of the military. That’s my take on it.
Why should we calm down?
There was NO need for the General to say ANYTHING.
These scopes save our soldiers lives EVERY day!
Since 1991, all we have done is go and protect Muslim interests around the world at a cost of trillions to us. If they don’t like our Christian protection and dollars—f’em.
The good General should have said “This is the best damn gun scope in the world and our soldiers deserve only the best. It saves soldiers’ lives everyday, and I’m for anything that save our soldiers lives so they can return back to their families.”
To have a top general fret over something so non-consequential is demeaning and embarrassing.
There’s a cross inside the scope—does that offend those Muslim bastids too?
The General screwed the pooch on this one, again in my opinion. He didn't have to say anything other than the issue is being addressed and corrected. PERIOD!
By having the top soldier in your chain of command sounding so political and PC, combined with the very restrictive Rules Of Engagement, and a CINC setting artificial deadlines for the completion of a very nebulous mission takes its toll on the morale of those actually doing the fighting.
Sorry that we disagree on this matter, however as one who has experience in fighting a political "war" knowing going in that we won't be allowed to "win", I still believe the General went way beyond what he should have said, if he had to say anything at all!