Personally, I do not have an issue with this method. However, regardless of that ignorant U.S. Army slogan "I am and Army of one," I'm not, and neither is anybody else in the militaries. The required changes to follow Pershing's example would be to return ourselves to the mind-set of pre-WW I military life. Garrisons would need to be purely catholic, purely protestant, purely Muslim, purely Jewish, purely black, purely white, and purely stupid.

To set a precedence where attacking the faith of another is acceptable warfare would be an insult to the world, Ed -- and the world still greatly outnumbers the two of us. There’s just too much in the way.

Dan