. . . please don't go off the deep end and state that we need a completely atheistic military. What are needed are real people from across the American spectrum, and this we have -- as evidenced by last year’s unfortunate explosion of a general to religious fame.

I believe that, other than this one much-exploited homily, Boykin does remain an honorable man, and an able leader. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski may also be honorable, and her rank states that she, too, is an able leader. The trouble at Abu Ghraib, however, seems to go against this. As Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu states, "the protest of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was in charge of the Military Police unit at the Abu Ghraib prison, that 'I didn’t know anything like this was going on' sounds disingenuous", but then the inquiry into her activities during the abuses under her command remains a current undertaking.

We’ll see,
Dan