Geez does this look bad. You just don't knock on a Pashtun house wearing army fatigues and carrying a bible. Millions of Muslims view the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as modern day crusades. This throws salt on the wound. I, for one, would like my tax dollars to go to these guys actually LEARNING Pashto or Dari so that they can better interact with locals, rather than pissing off the population by handing out bibles. This is both illegal and endangering for the real US missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For Christopher Hitchens's reporting on evangelism in the military, go here.