Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
The Pentagon Unleashes a Holy Warrior
A Christian extremist in a high Defense post can only set back the U.S. approach to the Muslim world.
By William M. Arkin
…The photographs were taken shortly after the disastrous "Blackhawk Down" mission had resulted in the death of 18 Americans. When Boykin came home and had them developed, he said, he noticed a strange dark mark over the city. He had an imagery interpreter trained by the military look at the mark. "This is not a blemish on your photograph," the interpreter told him, "This is real."
"Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy," Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. "It is the principalities of darkness It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy."
That's an unusual message for a high-ranking U.S. military official to deliver. But Boykin does it frequently.
This June, for instance, at the pulpit of the Good Shepherd Community Church in Sandy, Ore., he displayed slides of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jung Il. "Why do they hate us?" Boykin asked. "The answer to that is because we're a Christian nation We are hated because we are a nation of believers."
Our "spiritual enemy," Boykin continued, "will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus."
Who is Jerry Boykin? He is Army Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin. The day before Boykin appeared at the pulpit in Oregon, the Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had nominated the general for a third star and named him to a new position as deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence.
In this newly created position, Boykin is not just another Pentagon apparatchik or bureaucratic warrior. He has been charged with reinvigorating Rumsfeld's "High Value Target Plan" to track down Bin Laden, Hussein, Mullah Omar and other leaders in the terrorism world.
But Gen. Boykin's appointment to a high position in the administration is a frightening blunder at a time when there is widespread acknowledgment that the position of the United States in the Islamic world has never been worse.
Posted by P6 at October 16, 2003 07:30 AM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1999I think that we should keep him around until all of the Muslim "extremists" have been removed from the terrorist organizations. Tit for tat, so to speak.
So the U.S. army is now equivalent to terrorist organizations, Phelps? I thought we were a lot better than that and did not need to sink to their level.
You seem to have logged on one step ahead of me sis.
You know what though, Phelps? I'd be willing to agree to an extremist exchange on the governmental level. The King of Saudi Arabia for Bush. How about it?
I just posted about this topic to veiled4allah. MSNBC and CNN are covering it.
P.S. Why does the LA Times have such a demanding registration process? I don't want to have to give them all that information just to read the rest of this article. Though it's not the worst I've seen.
there are several generic id/pwd combos that you can use on the LA Times, NY Times and several other sites.
sometimes you can read a thread on slashdot and pick one up, but i read on Calpundit's site that gorevidal/gorevidal works for LA Times, and it does.