Why is it nobody inside the beltway can call this for what it is: trivial BS that's being spun into a major crisis as a test to see how much clout the liberals and their media still have? Why hasn't one person gone on the record saying that this is a phony crisis, and the sights are on the weapons because we want to kill these people, so we don't really care if they're offended or not?
Trijicon was successful when this was a minor "insider" item that "offended" nobody. I'm sorry if they feel that continued business success depends on assuaging the feelings of some RAT liberals who feel their calling in life is to assuage the feelings of moslem terrorist cowards. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to retool their entire product line, but if Trijicon feels this is the best course for their company, so bet it.
Personally, I'd offer the government the choice of buying the existing products at existing prices, or develop a Politically Correct version at double the price. For that price, they could also include materials in arabic explaining while we're eager to kill them, we'd never intentionally or unintentionally offend them.
The saddest part is seeing retired flag officers swallow hard and tow the party line. Perhaps they remember the Clinton years, when pro-Clinton retirees got speaking and consulting gigs, while anybody who spoke up against them could find their pension checks routed into a black hole for months at a time.
I’ll echo that, Mister Mag.
And how.
What’s disturbing is that somebody at Petraeus’ level really needs to respond at all. I understand, sadly, why he feels compelled to answer it that way.
We’re finished.
That settles it. I’m buying a Trijicon ACOG this week. I want one with the inscription intact.
Get off Petreus’ case.
He says things to protect his men. He is politically savy to get his goals accomplished. Big whoop if he says “outloud’ he is surprised or upset. So f...g what? His heart and head has always been in the right place, its not easy to have a military that has to be able to work with Congress.
Petreus is not there to shoot off his mouth gung ho...he is there to win a war,keep the political loonies at bay and get funding for his war and troops.