When you say nothing else but condemn the jackass preacher, when you make that one point in a post, you can't really blame anyone on grounds of reading comprehension. You have made a faulty argument, presented an irrelevancy. (I'm referring specifically to your posts 126 and 130, not the others.)
The preacher's jackassism is totally beside the point. Most here, including 668, understand that he is a jackass. But 1A is not only to protect the wise.
Nor is it for Gen. Petraeus to make public comments as to who is wise or foolish. His job is to get the war won, not to undermine it, and his comments undermine it far more than the Florida preacher's actions.
I expect people to think when they read and respond to the words that are actually written. Forgive me.
General Petraeus is doing his job, both in working to get the war won under dire circumstances with an anti-American CinC, and in defending the lives of his troops from irresponsible morons.
Thank you for “getting it”.