You have lost me there, why is it stupid to ask for bible verses to be removed from the scopes?
Allowing troops to carry what ever religious items the wish is one thing. Having a religious inscription from one religion on an item you are required to use and maintain is not when the person using the item may not be christian and could cause offence.
As for the religious crusade, if the US was truly embarked on a religious crusade to eliminate Islam, why only two countries that they are planning or in the process of leaving?
There are roughly 150 countries with significant Muslim populations seems like they missed bombing 148 targets.
If they were at war with islam you would think the first step would be kick the 2,500,000 freely practicing muslims out of the US.
There are 1.5 billion muslims world wide roughly , there are 60 million in afghanistan and Iraq, conflicts in two countires with muslim populations does not make it a war against Islam.