His reaction was like mine. This is either a photoshop or a prank. More likely a prank.

If you follow the set of links from where this originated you’ll see that it was (supposedly) posted on a FB page by a military wife. That page is now down, as is the picture. The explanation for that would probably be, assuming that was a gay flag, that it is against a violation of some regulation or other and she didn’t want her husband getting into trouble after it went viral.

In my personal experience, I haven’t met any infantry men who are sympathetic to the gay cause. They may tolerate it or accept it so as to justify their own immoral heterosexual behavior, but I’ve never met one who is so excited about the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell that they would risk being reprimanded or punished by his chain of command over something like this.

My point is that this isn’t Obama’s Army… yet. This flag, if it is real, cannot be flown on a military base like that. A prank or a photoshop. Or a really stupid husband and wife team, and there are some of those in the Army, I’m sad to say.

My husband has this to say about the taking down of the cross in Afghanistan:

“The deal with the cross is not that it offends atheists or libs, but it probably looks like we are Crusaders to some Muslims.”

He is absolutely right. I know the administration doesn’t give a rats ass about winning the war or counterinsurgency (which is why people believe that the cross was taken down to appease libs and atheists and the gay flag flying with permission), but the fact is that there is a religious history in the Middle East that involves conquering and wars between Christians and Muslims. It may look like a slap in the face to the US, but the Army is not a church and cannot risk alienating what few allies in Afghanistan we have left.

There are some good Muslims in the Afghan Army that my husband works with… although when I say “good Muslims” I don’t know if Muslims willing to work with the U.S. or other faiths are “good” in the eyes of other Muslims, much like Catholics who vote for Obama cannot be real Catholics…. anyway, some are “good Muslims” and reject terrorism and the Taliban. The people of Afghanistan are just scared. We are not trying to appease the terrorists, we are trying to send the right signal that we are not interested in imperialism like the British Empire was, but rather that we are interested in helping them facilitate their own future success. We are benevolent. Except for liberal soldiers who screw everything up, but that’s another story….

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