[silmaril]

Don't. It's smart soldiering and smart warfighting to not alienate the locals when you don't have to. The more they sense respect from us, the more they will cooperate with us. And the more they cooperate, the sooner we win this war.

[Dallas]

See #5

I understand the obvious, but our soldiers are hanging their asses out by following some of these customs.

Secondly, I don't think it makes a damn, how well we treat them. We'll always be infidels to Moslems because or our support for Israel. As bad as Russia treated the Afghans, you never heard them being labeled as the great satan.