Boykin's Back

I might support Tom Delay's War on Christianity if it means we can get rid of characters like Gen. Earl Boykin. You may remember Earl as the guy who made a big splash a few years ago by cutting through the rhetoric and declaring the War on Terrorism to really be about good vs. evil. He went on to say basically that Islam was Satan.

In another episode described here, Boykin said he had proof positive that Satan was behind anyone taking up arms against America:

At several of his talks, he showed photos from the capital of Somalia, where he had commanded Delta Forces during the 1993 battle there. In the pictures, there were black streaks in the sky, photographic evidence, he said, of a "demonic spirit over the city of Mogadishu."

I'm thinking that we need to start fitting this guy for a straight jacket. President Bush thought he deserved to be promoted. And promote him he did...to a position where he had oversight of prisoners (in his mind, Satan's Soldiers) in Iraq. He apparently treated them much like you would expect.

So what now? Why, promote him again of course. Likely presidential candidate Sen. George Allen has put his name up to head all U.S. Special Ops. As noted in the Salon article linked above, it will be interesting to see if Faust McCain stays true to his anti-torture roots and votes against this cat, or if he continues to cave in to the religious right because of his presidential fever.