what a high-ranking untouchable* uniformed officer says in public, and his church appearance in my state was hardly a one-time event for the good general. And do you really believe it is proper for an American general to invite hundreds of Southern Baptist ministers to a Faith Force Multipliers sleepover meeting at an Army facility?

As the Carpetbagger points out: "I appreciate Boykin's career as a military officer, but it appears that he may want to consider employment outside the Army. Maybe a pastoral position behind a pulpit would better suit his interests."

I agree.

As for the lawyer Ann Coulter, I think this statement from her on November 29, 2001 is prophetic: "...In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is."

Later, she writes:

"The most popular argument for the Powell view is that we have to be nice to the detainees, because otherwise people won't be nice to captured American soldiers. Which people are we trying to impress by this largesse exactly? Any Americans captured by al Qaeda will be tortured, disemboweled and beheaded.

"Indeed, it is difficult to conceive of the United States actually going to war against any country that would honor the Geneva Convention. Despite an enormous groundswell of support for an attack on France, we probably won't. The only people we go to war with are utter savages.

"In World War II, the Japanese tortured and killed American prisoners of war. In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese tortured American prisoners of war. In the Gulf War, Iraq tortured U.S. prisoners of war – including a female officer who was sexually assaulted by her captors.

"So this Geneva Convention thing isn't really working out for us."

So I guess we don't need no stink'n Geneva Conventions because the United States only fights utter (unconverted) savages.

* Lt. Gen. Boykin maybe untouchable this year, but he could be touchable next year.