...was not that he said what he did; it's that he said it in uniform, which gave his statements the weight of official pronouncements. He can believe what he chooses, and his dealings in church are his business. Personally I don't think he should be fired, but he should be chastised for the use of the uniform. And of course I disagree vehemently that this is a war against Dar-al-Islam (the Muslim world). It's a war against Islamists--those who think the entire world should be Dar-al-Islam. And that's not merely a Christian war, as Boykin and Coulter suggest. Anyone with a stake in his own freedom can and should sign up for that war.

As for sinking to her level of invective, well, golly, Susannah, is she a wit or a twit? She stirs up hatred almost for fun (and definitely for profit); regardless of her intelligence or quick tongue, that makes her a twit in my book. And I for one don't think she was joking any more than she was joking when she demanded that we kill Muslim heads of state and forcibly convert their populations to Christianity.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor