All the usual suspects came out of the woodwork when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta opened up combat arms to women. Not that women hadn’t served in combat before — just ask Rep. Tammy Duckworth about that — but they didn’t qualify for combat infantry arms medals, which froze them out of a number of promotion opportunities. Still, to hear the naysayers at work, women are soft and weak and can’t be soldiers, despite the fact that, well, many of them are.
I’m going to pick on one regressive right-wing asshole in particular: Retired Lt. General Jerry “My God Has A Bigger Penis Than Your God” Boykin, who claims that women should not be in combat because women are a burden. Because, y’know, a woman’s place is in the kitchen, not earning their way in the real world like everybody else. Or some shit like that.
In case you’re wondering who this asshole is: He’s a religious nut who claims he has a photo of a demon over Mogadishu, and who was involved in the fiasco that got dozens of Americans killed in Mogadishu in 1993 for no good reason other than the desire to punish warlords for dissing Americans. He also undoubtedly got lots of Americans killed by, in 2003, claiming that his God was stronger than the Muslim God and the Muslim God is a fake idol. In other words, he’s a crazy religious nutcase whose blindness to that fact has resulted in plenty of dead bodies, some of which were Americans.
So why listen to him? Uhm, exactly! Women have been serving in combat for the past ten years in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where there are no front lines and no non-combatant positions, and it’s about time they get the combat pay and merit badges that goes with it. Assholes like Boykin are probably just irate because if women had qualified for combat duty prior to now, Boykin would have never gotten promoted to being a Lt. General because he was, to put it bluntly, a dim son. So it goes…
- Badtux the Matter of Fact Penguin
The other question is, why does ANYONE listen to Boykin? Aside from the other KKKhristian Dominionists whose retrogressive views Boykin reflects back to them. The fuckwit had to slink out of his military career after sticking his brass-covered foot in his mouth too many times. Even the Pentagon recognized that he was a danger to the troops.
So why the fuck does CNN give this loser a platform? For the freak show value of having some halfwit on saying something stupid? What makes him more credible than the looney raving outside the bus station? Because Boykin has held a position of power? Yeah, but he got cashiered from it! That makes him a FAILURE. Who wants to hear from flops? I want to know what the winners are thinking.
I don’t understand why so many failures get so much air time — viz. Carly Fiorina. Is it laziness on the part of the meeja, that they want to book familiar faces? Is it part of a corporate agenda, to put on these voices of a predictable “he says smart things, she says stupid shit” dichotomy because the corporations want to keep the stupid shit out there since those ideas fit big business aims? Does it make the meeja show guest bookers feel better about themselves because they can feel smarter and more righteous than the idiots the give the platform to? There’s an underlying zeitgeist at work here, and I’d like to figure out what it is.
You have to factor that any one who makes it to the rank of General, is one of the best ass kissers in the military. How do I know, It’s the thing, I don’t respect any rank above e-7. From there on you have to play politics, it’s not the job you do, or the outfit you are with. But the best set of lips in the military.
Bukko, the reason CNN gave Boykin a platform was because of their desire for “balance”. They wanted a right-wing voice. So why a loon like Boykin rather than someone sane and reasonable. Well, someone sane and reasonable would be a liberal, duh
. The reality is that if you want to put a right wing voice onto your television show, pretty much the only people you can find out there are, literally, nuttier than a bag of airline peanuts.
Jim, Boykin was involved in pretty much every failure of the past thirty years when it came to the military, whether it was the failed Iran hostage rescue in 1980 or the failure to catch Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora in 2002. The dude is a serial failure. The only way to explain how he got his generalship is ass kissing. Just sayin’.
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin