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2012-01-31 Home Front: Culture Wars

Retired Special Forces General declines prayer breakfast engagement

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-01-31 03:38|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 so I guess everyone have their rights too their own religous views except the general? Too bad some of these cadets are gonna be officers and probably high ranking officers in the future. Maybe Boykin can get a list of the ones that bitched about him and hold his foot on thier head while they trying too come up the ranks.

Posted by chris 2012-01-31 09:03|| 2012-01-31 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 No foot to the head. Gen. Boykin is retired and only because he is retired can speak against the official line.

Posted by Shimble Guelph5793 2012-01-31 09:51|| 2012-01-31 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems like some people are not much interested in the truth anymore.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-01-31 16:35|| 2012-01-31 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Boykin, now a fundamentalist Christian minister . . . . Since his retirement in 2007, he has repeatedly called Islam the greatest threat that America faces, and compared its followers to Satan.

I'd hope that's what a fundamentalist Christian minister is saying. Or else I'd worry that he's, oh, say, Episcopal, and feel kinda cheated on the price of admission. I presume attendance was optional?

"This is exactly the wrong kind of message for the military to send, Weinstein said. Were just handing al-Qaida material to use against us.

Right. Because if we'd just shut up it would all be hunky-dory and they'd leave us alone. Good thing they don't know about our Billy Graham Bible Blasters.

Posted by RandomJD 2012-01-31 18:45|| 2012-01-31 18:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Bio.

It's important to note that unconventional warfare types are often unconventional themselves. It is very hard for them to get promoted beyond Colonel, because they are looked at very questioningly by conventional types.

However, after retirement, some of them will "go off the reservation", and tend towards extremism in what they pursue. My attitude is to admire what they were, and cut them slack for what they have become.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-31 21:34|| 2012-01-31 21:34|| Front Page Top

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