Thursday, August 21, 2008

Spiritual Energy

Must everything be a controversy. From the Military.com article:

The book is "Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for
Military Personnel," by Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) William
McCoy, and according to Petraeus' published endorsement
of the work, "it should be in every rucksack for those times
when soldiers need spiritual energy."


But the endorsement - which has spurred a demand by a
watchdog group for Petraeus' dismissal and court martial
on the grounds of establishing a religious requirement on
troops - was a personal view never intended for publication,
the book's author now says.


"In the process of securing … comments for recommending
the book I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on
my part that the comments were publishable," McCoy said
in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com. "This was my mistake."