Monday, October 27, 2003

That National Review Editorial

The Editorial which Robin is referring to in the National Review calls for General Boykin's head. They "acccidentally" went to press with it, but regret doing so, and no longer link to the editorial on their website (they can't do anything about the print version). That text read:


During the Korean War, Douglas MacArthur wanted to attack Manchuria, and he let that be known to everyone who would listen. That was not U.S. policy, however, and President Truman promptly sacked the great man. During the Cold War — in fact often pretty hot — NATO general Edwin Walker was instructing his troops in the theorems of the John Birch Society. That the U.S. government was 60 percent under Communist control was not the view of the Kennedy administration, and Walker was gone. Flash forward to today. A three-star general, William "Jerry" Boykin, has been lecturing, in public and in uniform, to the effect that we are in a war with Islam, than whose god his God is bigger, that this is a war against Satan, of whom he has a photograph in the sky above Mogadishu. President Bush has made it national policy that we are not in a war with global Islam. Furthermore, it is hardly good for the morale of troops to understand that their commander is a wacko who goes around photographing Satan zooming overhead. General Boykin is manifestly insubordinate, and should be sacked. Yesterday.



That "Yesterday" is a nice touch. The NR editors claim that they removed the editorial because they decided to withold judgement until they have all the information. But, they pretty much seem to have all the information needed.

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