[Peace-discuss] Special Forces crusader reprimanded

[Paul Mueth]

 .. . .with new duties,

 I guess the pentagon thinks the Rev. General can
outfox any congressional direction, I regret they are
likely correct .. . 

Boykin's New Crusade
Steve Clemons
December 20, 2004

>From The Washington Note:

GENERAL BOYKIN ON FIGHTING CRUSADE FOR INTELLIGENCE
  Remember Lt. General William "Jerry" Boykin? He's
the Bible-belting general who described America's
campaign in Iraq as a crusade against Satan.
  Here is a report on some other gems:
  . . .the former commander and 13-year veteran of the
Army's top-secret Delta Force is also an outspoken
evangelical Christian who appeared in dress uniform
and polished jump boots before a religious group in
Oregon in June to declare that radical Islamists hated
the United States "because we're a Christian nation,
because our foundation and our roots are
Judeo-Christian. . .and the enemy is a guy named
Satan."
  Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in
Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God
was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God
and his was an idol."
   "We in the army of God, in the house of God,
kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as
this," Boykin said last year.
   On at least one occasion, in Sandy, Ore., in June,
Boykin said of President Bush: "He's in the White
House because God put him there."
     Today, the New York Times reports that Boykin,
who is Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for
Intelligence, is "drawing up a plan that would give
the military a more prominent role in
intelligence-collection operations that have
traditionally been the province of the Central
Intelligence Agency, including missions aimed at
terrorist groups and those involved in weapons
proliferation."
    Apparently, the key new idea in the Pentagon
report is the notion of "fighting for intelligence."
In other words, "the Pentagon would commence combat
operations chiefly to obtain intelligence."
    Boykin's "crusade for intelligence" sounds pretty
much like standard operating procedure to me,
particularly an administration that seems to care
little about empirical reality or feedback from its
policies. Now, the Pentagon wants to make intelligence
an after-the-fact item, not something that ought to
precede combat operations.
    
To all of those who argued that the neocons had no
place to go because the messy war in Iraq would
constrain them and their future choices, let me remind
you that Boykin seems to be thriving in his job.
Douglas Feith has his. Wolfowitz seems to be holding
on just fine.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/boykins_new_crusade.php

article has link to original publishing website that
has interesting forum attached and the Times report