[Dallas]

You can't really advance a coherent argument that this behavior degrades the mission -- in fact, there's plenty of evidence that it enhances it.

Would you care to expand on that ? Or perhaps comment on the fact that U.S. special forces were used to help build Mosques in Indonesia. Are they our friends now, too ?

I think you're mostly just annoyed that US soldiers are respecting Muslim mores.

If you'll read further up, I said I had no problem with respecting Ramadan observances/prayer/etc, but I take issue with these search procedures.

[silmaril]

You might consider that someone is watching the soldiers' backs since you're looking at a photo of the scene.

And yeah, Christian Science Monitor ran a story a few weeks back on how SF personnel were getting way more info and killing lots more terrorists when our non-SF personnel were behaving with a measure of respect toward the locals....who often know where the terrorists are.