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In a nutshell, the author used the opening saga to polarize the audience and to help sell the story to a major outlet. The author admits the military as a whole is less religious than the general population. I seriously doubt the Special Forces Lt. was using religion for anything other than to get his men out of a very bad situation. In fact, in many ways, stating Jesus Killed Mohammed is as insulting to Christians as it is to Muslims. Of the 15000 or so officers belonging to the OCF it's very likely only a very small percentage of them have any control over front line grunts. Most of them are probably pretty safe pulling down jobs behind the lines in support of the front line troops. It would be interesting to know the exact percentage but for every grunt on the front line there is probably four or more grunts behind the lines supporting his effort and the percentage of officers behind the lines in support would probably be at least the same but more likely greater considering all the doctors and such are officers. I don't know the exact percentage but for every officer on the front lines there is probably 6 or 8 behind the lines in support. I don't know the hard numbers so if anyone has them feel free to post. Nonetheless, it's hardly enough to call the Iraqi war effort a Christian Fundamentalist "Jihad". So in a nutshell, the author took a non-story and added a little bit of flavor to sell his piece.
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Thomas Jefferson
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