I'm talking about the American military burning a load of donated Bibles to Afghanistan awhile back. The military refused to distribute the Bibles and refused to send them back to the donors, so they burned them. It was big news when it happened, or at least I thought. It seems many have forgotten or didn't know about it. Drudge recently revived the story a few days ago on his site.
The military decided the Bibles would break the rules of showing bias one way or the other and wanted to remain "neutral", so they couldn't offer the Bibles that were translated into Farsi without "recruiting more Al Quida" fighters. I thought the right decision would be to return the Bibles to the donors, but hey, I'm a Christian and too dumb to understand the symbolism of the US military burning their own Holy Book in front of a bunch of blood thirsty savages. Kinda makes you look like you are losing, and all, ya know? Sorta makes you wonder exactly what your country is fighting for. Seems to me like civilizing a bunch of blood thirsty savages is what our goal should be, otherwise just nuke them all and save the money and blood. Trying to kill just a few Taliban amongst the hordes of other blood thirsty savages that are being radicalized every Friday seems like a waste of time. It seems they don't want to make it a religious war when that is clearly what it is.
I figured if you didn't want them to be Christians, well, then make them atheists. IMHO, you would get the same insane result, ie, flag burning, insults, shouts of "Death to America", and more Al Quida recruits. Might as well distribute the Bibles amongst the heathens and maybe do some good. The only problem is I don't know how many can read.
Well, I look at Drudge every day and somehow I missed the story. Thank you for telling me. Here’s what I think: I don’t know who sent the bibles (your post doesn’t say), but I don’t think the military should be in the religion business or proselytizing/correcting any belief system. If the beliefs of a religion drive a people to acts of terrorism against another people, you wipe them out, period. That’s all those people understand and fear, and that’s what our military is for. That said, burning those bibles was a terrible thing to do and whatever commander ordered it be done should be demoted at the very least and probably drummed out or court-martialed at best. They should have been marked “return to sender” and quietly shipped back.