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With God on Our Side

Interesting story from the LA Times about Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, the new deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence: General casts war in religious terms. It seems the 13-year Delta Force veteran is an evangelical Christian prone to public remarks that feed into Islamic fears that the US is waging a War on Evil in which Muslims are the bad guys by virtue of their non-Judeo-Christian faith. The article is the straight-news version of an opinion piece by military affairs analyst William Arkin that is also running in today’s LA Times: The Pentagon unleashes a holy warrior.

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One Response to “With God on Our Side”

  1. John F Says:
    October 17th, 2003 at 12:10 pm

    The guy should take a long hard look and read of this article:

    http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html

    Yes, it’s an onion piece — but I think it makes a clear and concise statement: Thou Shalt not Kill.

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