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Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher is a highly decorated combat veteran who made the mistake of posing for a photograph with a dead ISIS combatant.
It was a breach of etiquette, to be sure. And it was not good optics for a Navy SEAL to have done such a thing.

Thanks in large part to social media, and in equally large part to the mean-spirited discourse of the day, virtually anything can be turned into a national controversy.
For Exhibit A, I go to Melania Trump or, more specifically, to the first lady’s coat.
If you remember last holiday season, Mrs. Trump was lambasted by the media and Hollywood types for her red Christmas trees.
This year, because there are no red Christmas trees or otherwise scandalous decorations in the White House, Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan went wardrobe on Melania.

I’m not going to stop eating at Chick-fil-A for three reasons. First, I like it. Second, if I started avoiding businesses with which I might have a philosophical or ideological difference of opinion, my options would be pretty limited. Third, I believe Christianity would be much better served if Christians would focus more or introducing people to Jesus and less on boycotting restaurants and coffee shops.
But I am disappointed.