Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth continue to violate the Constitution now using religion to justify the illegal war in Iran

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28 Democrats just demanded an investigation into Pete Hegseth (Whiskey Pete) after hundreds of troops reported commanders pushing end-times Christian fascism as justification for the Iran war.
Reps. Jared Huffman, Jamie Raskin, and Chrissy Houlahan led the charge, requesting DoD Inspector General Platte B. Moring III investigate reports of commanders "invoking religious prophecy and apocalyptic theology to justify the United States' military actions in Iran."

Lawmakers want to know whether Hegseth's "extreme religious rhetoric has metastasized into segments of the military chain of command" in ways that violate the Constitution and DoD regulations.

What triggered this? Over 200 service members across 50 installations and every military branch filed complaints with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation reporting that their commanders told them the Iran war is divinely ordained, that Trump was chosen by Jesus to bring about Armageddon.

Seriously❗

Hegseth sponsors a weekly White House Bible study and has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the U.S. military. His monthly Pentagon prayer gatherings have featured Doug Wilson, a far-right Christian nationalist who has defended slavery and called for America to become a theocracy.

The Democrats laid out six specific areas for investigation, from whether commanders violated DoD religious neutrality policies to whether whistleblowers faced retaliation. The Pentagon offered no direct response when asked about the complaints.

The Constitution is crystal clear: service members swear an oath to defend a secular republic, not to carry out anyone's end-times fever dream.

If the Secretary of Defense is turning the world's most lethal fighting force into a Christian dominionist project, that's not just a policy failure, it's a national security crisis, potentially even a global one.

Maine Writer Response: This radical religion strategy failed during the Crusades, Hitler invoked this as justification for the “final solution” and he failed, the Spanish Inquisition built a torture campaign around this myth but think about how many thousands of lives were lost to prove this strategy is never going to work❓ 

Meanwhile, the whack-a-mole reason behind this war changes with the ocean tides. Was the purpose regime change❓ Is this the fulfillment of Netanyahu’s long wished for war❓ Is the purpose to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities or is the purpose to bring Christianity to this eons old Iranian civilization❓ Multiple choice! Just my opinion❗

ISIS will destroy the radical Islam the evil group exploits

During the Middle Ages beginning in the 11th Century, the Crusades were a fruitless European led series of attackes against Islam. The failed campaigns took thousands of lives but accomplished nothing. Now, in th 21st Century, the irony is that the evil Islamic State (ISIS) or self declared Caliphate is likely doing to Islam what the Crusades failed to do. This evil terrorist ISIS movement will eventually dismantle Islam, because after the terrorist group's nefarious strategists are destroyed, it's unlikley many people will be left to care about protecting what's left of Islam.

The crusades were a series of religious wars between European Christians and Muslims.

The Crusades were military campaigns conducted in the Middle Ages. In 1095 Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, in Constantinople, sent an ambassador to Pope Urban II in Italy pleading for military help against the growing Turkish (Muslim)  threat. The Pope responded promptly by calling Catholic soldiers to join the First Crusade. The immediate goal was to guarantee pilgrims access to the holy sites in the Holy Land under Muslim control. His long-range goal was to reunite the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom aftertheir split in 1054 with the pope as head of the united Church. A complex 200-year struggle ensued.

Roman Catholics from many different classes and nations of Western Europe became crusaders. Nevertheless, the campaigns were useless and eventually the Catholic response to the Crusades was defeated.

Now, the evil ISIS terrorist group, or the evil Islamic State, a self declared Califphate, is raising widespread barbaric fear among the general population. Indeed, sheer fear of the terrorist group might cause many Islamic faithful to consider ways to assimilate into Western cutlures and to disassociate from the radical ISIS. 

Although there's no evidence about whether or not Islamic cultural assimilation is happening, it's plainly common sense to believe the process of becoming "European"  is strong among Muslims who don't want to risk being returned to their destroyed homelands in the Middle East or wrongly prosecuted for being terrorists.

Evil ISIS attacks against the civilized world will cause reasonable Islamists to disassociate from the group's radical and destructive ideology.  

It's premature to speculate about the potential for an Islamic backlash to evil ISIS. Nevetheless, the human condition being what it is, to aspire for enlightenment, will revolt against radical Islam Eventually, the Islmaic (Muslim) people will assimilate into the prevailing civilized culture, where ever the refugees and survivors of this current carnage wind up, after fleeing the chaos.  

It's premature and perhaps fanciful thinking, but in a universe where everything is possible, the current evil of ISIS terrorism might well accomplish what the failed Crusades could never do.  

In other words, the backlash to ISIS might destroy centuris of Muslim culture and redefins the Middle East as a new nation.