Once again, being an Ethics Dunce and being a regular, garden variety dunce goes hand in hand.

Last week it was reported that Trijicon Inc of Wixom, Michigan, the company that makes the scopes on rifles used by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been engraving them with a Biblical reference. The reference is 2COR4:6, short for 2 Corinthians 4:6, which reads: “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Terrific idea, guys. As Americans fight conflicts in the Middle East while maintaining to the Muslim world that we are in not engaging in a war against Islam, you send our soldiers into battle with Christian quotations on their weapons. 

The U.S. government would be violating the Constitution to do that, and the military would be violating the International Convention Against Gallactic Stupidity to do that. So Trijicon, or some over-zealous religious lunatic on its staff, did it for them, secretly. Irresponsible. Offensive. Presumptuous. Incompetent.

And so, so, SO dumb!

General Petraeus, in charge of the U.S. force in Iraq, was horrified when he learned about the inscriptions and said, “I can assure you that there is much greater sensitivity among our troopers about this kind of thing than, apparently, there is in whatever contractor produced those sights.” No doubt. There is greater sensitivity among the competitors in the Westminster Dog Show than the contractor that produced those sights.

At last report, the company agreed to remove the reference on the scopes. Good. Now the Pentagon should remove Trijicon from its list of contractors until the Second Coming.

Unbelievable.