[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh crap that happens all over the world. The top brass, many of them excellent men, say Guten Tag when they address troops including Germans in Euro, they say Konnichiwa when on US military basis in Honshu or Okinawa under join programs with the Japanese self defense four, they say "Buenos Dias" when getting ready to greet US forces in Latin American along with the local counterparts (usually in counter insurgencies). Assalaam aleikum is as natural as saying "Good afternoon" in any of these countries on the Middle East-- in fact that is what it means along with morning and evening greetings. I will fight the nastiest Islamobastard terrorists with the rest of them, but this is indeed not a major concern or a compromising situation, I assure you.

[ecomcon]

Ok. I suppose so.

Somehow I doubt MacArthur would have said “Konnichiwa” before we had defeated the Japanese, or Patton saying “Guten Tag” much before the war’s end, unless it was with much sarcasm.