brilliant military strategy

Figures

I like it when our leaders use religious justifications for waging war. As opposed to you know, things like national interests, national security risks, threat of impending attacks, gathering intelligence (as opposed to generating it by use of torture), proper strategic planning and allocation of forces, and so forth. You can't use Sun Tzu to start a war you cannot win or to supposedly come up with a victory condition and pretext for ending it (after you get into the mess). But hey the book of revelations comes in handy instead as a text on military strategy. (And this is old news for the rest of the world of course).

I'm guessing there are plenty of people who consider themselves Christian who would disagree in one way or another. But those people didn't make up enough voters in 2000 and 2004 for me not to now get to call them out on it.

Especially when you read more and more about Blackwater. I'm probably not likely to be the first person to oppose privatized military or security forces, but deliberately using a force like that to wage something like a holy war sounds like something from several centuries in our past. At least, I thought it should.