With custom-made integrated circuits, the design team usually puts some "ego" item in unused space on the substrate in celebration. It could be the names of the team members, a cartoon, or maybe even a citation from the Bible!!!. How can we guarantee to the mooslims that there is nothing hidden a JDAM guidance circuit, for example, that might offend them?
Even if you had an electron microscope, you can't open up the packaging without destroying the device. CAIR is just going to have to take our word on the matter that we're trying to kill these islamic terrorists with these weapons, but we certainly wouldn't want to offend them. But nobody has any way of knowing if these "offensive weapons" are out there, or if they ever existed in the first place.
Meanwhile, I expect there will be a new military bureaucracy set up to actually make sure that defacing these tens of thousands of sights gets done, and none are overlooked. Either support people will go out into the field, and track every scope down, or it will have to be done at some depot when the troops are moving in or out of country. Will Carl Levin, in the course of hearings, provide extra budget money for this? What islamic group should receive these reports? Will Levin personally guarantee that each sight will be found, defaced, and the database updated? Will all specs for future procurement of any weapons (not just weapons, but anything the federal government buys, including pork products) be certified as "non-offensive".
In the end, this will cost the taxpayer perhaps tens of millions of dollars in addition to the humiliation The One accepted on behalf of the entire country. For a regime that readily denigrates much of the American citizenry, this will do more harm to American than all the bowing and scraping 0bama has done to all the tyrants and louts around the world so far.
Roger that. Brilliantly put.
What's the old saying? Just before a mob guy ices a guy from another gang?
"Nothin' poysonal, ya un'erstan'. Jus' biznezz!" :-\