"The Holy Boynking" - Commentary by Tony Seton

The Holy Boynking

It shows what a good job of vetting they do over at the Five-Sided Funny Farm that they promoted Army Lt. General William Boykin to serve as deputy undersecretary of defense. He probably said all the right things, and they just didn’t press him hard, to see if perhaps he wasn’t a bit too far right in those things he said.

Boykin is an evangelical Christian who upset a whole lot of folks around the world by describing the war on terrorism as something of a holy war. Which it pretty much is, depending on your definition of holy and religion. He would have been better off saying it’s a war against zealots, but that would likely take in too many of his closest friends.

This isn’t a holy war for the Bushies. Unless you confuse religion and power; the loons who have dreamed up the administration’s foreign policy are not about religion. It’s not clear what they’re about with their power -- acquiring it, exercising it -- but that’s another story.

Boykin is getting boinked on his own petard, not because the Bushies disagree with him -- they don’t -- but because it was an impolitic thing to say. It caused a public relations problem, and image is the mother’s milk of this group. Image is all they have.

The general is now being investigated, and soon, no doubt, will be done. Back to the aviary where it’s all right to tell your truth among friends. Friends who don’t know that Islam is about Muhammed, not an idol. With his head up his fruit salad, Boykin alleged that Muslims don’t believe in a "real God."

Curious that he didn’t say the real God. Was he leaving room for Vishnu or Thor? Methinks not, but it was Muslims for dinner that night. It’s interesting how these people think. The over-indulgent tend to find their god’s hand in everything that’s good, both what benefits them and what hurts their enemies.

It’s curious, too, that no one raised the issue about a "real" god. It’s not like we’re talking about Roger Clemens or JLo. This is mortal combat over imaginary icons. Christ was real, as was Muhammed, a long time ago, but despite their deification, neither has been seen up close and personal -- by reliable sources -- in over a thousand years.

Finally, there’s an irony here, one that will likely be wasted on the general. People who spout select scripture -- of any religion -- rarely embody the true spiritual consciousness of the great souls they allege to revere.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.