Steve Benen has thoroughly documented Lt. Gen. William Boykin’s cartoonishly enthusiastic evangelist streak. The next time you see a jihadi video ranting about imperialist American crusaders out to destroy the Muslim religion, keep Boykin in mind. We really have guys like that. It’s worse than scattered nuts like Coulter and Malkin or the odd presidential freudian slip. We had a guy who presented our side in exactly the same terms that terrorist recruiters use to describe us running counterterror operations at the Pentagon.
Now Boykin’s gone, the nutters seem to have quieted down at the Air Force Academy and we have a Secretary of Defense who seems minimally capable of doing his job. Chalk it up to the soft bigotry of low expectations, but I feel something verging on relief.
Otto Man
What took so long? This guy makes Gen. Edwin Walker look like a saint.
Zombie Santa Claus
Now he can present the war on his garden moles as a Holy Crusade to his wife and his assorted buddies down at the American Legion.
Tsulagi
Boykin is a crack up. He’s capable in many ways, but he’s a certified loon. He really believes he has a photo of Satan hovering over Mogadishu when we were in Somalia.
Props to Gates. He’s forced out Boykin and some of Cheney’s Gestapo (Powell used that term) like Cambone. Actions which might have been part of the reason to create and look for a War Czar. Gates is/was daddy’s man and maybe now suspected of being not entirely loyal by the idiot son and Last Throes Cheney.
Jake
What, no attendant sex scandal? Oh well. One less loon is one less loon.
Davebo
Or perhaps he saw an opportunity in the death of the right reverand Falwell.
cleek
i suppose this means we’ll be able to find him at Townhall or WND soon.
Wilfred
One by one, the stars of the Bush firmament begin to recede. Years from now we’ll look back at the Armitages, Rumsfelds and Boykins with nostalgia, to a time when uncommon craziness was a common nuisance.
Well, at least now we know that Bush won’t attack Iran – Boykin would never have missed a chance at that.