re: #251 Obdicut

I can understand why the joke can be viewed as objectionable. It is crude and does perpetuate sterotypes of Jews as greedy businessmen and clever. That Gen. Jones decided to include it in his opening remarks vis a vis the Taliban was not exactly a smart move on his part, particularly when the Taliban continue to show new and clever ways to kill Afghans and Pakistanis (to say nothing of being able to act as a double agent and murder CIA station officers in a suicide bombing earlier this year).

It was tone deaf.