Letters to the Editor
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subbing as "literate" warriors. LWM is right. These neanderthals are scotch faced, or Morgan Steven Boylan, or Old Grand Daddy, or Wild Turkey...for real. It's that frightening.
A probe meditation on military insanity, footsore public relations staff, gang-green toe infections, hand nail. rusty nail nailed into a Christs tree for jazzy sakes? Who knows? drunk on Rice Wine Sake?
Ask the State Department to buy Petrayus some cool tapping cletes high-heel- sexy combat boots. Give all Boylan' staff-infected crew a prestigious Combat Infantry Badge wreath badge with a pin for mild chubby, leftist fatty breast? It is too impenetrable, erotically "surging" with too many enigmas of erotica? I give up. OR: almost. Gads.
We winning?
Who plays in the World Series?
The Pink Socks vs The White Socks?
My socks never ever match up right.
footsore? Do you lend out matching clean socks that do not have athlete's foot fungus? Merci. I am to pay a visit somewhere that's friendly. Bye. love alway.
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@ Che
And now we see Political Cadres infiltrating all branches of the service to ensure ideological and political Purity.
I doubt the average grunt in the field has any respect at all for the Col. Just ask Bebop.
;-)
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Glenn, you have a great opportunity
Having spent 28 years in military public affairs, including four with U.S. Central Command, I am deeply saddened and disturbed by the total lack of professionalism by Col. Boylan. A professional public affairs officer knows that anything said to the media or the public should never be considered private and even when discussions are off the record, great care must still be used.
Further, a member the military serves first and foremost the principles of our nation and not men or political parties. Any decision I ever made was based on that principle which is why I praised to my colleagues Vietnam war protestors for their concern for our nation and right to protest the war including the two times I had blood poured on my office files. I felt honored to protect and defend my country so that the protestors could do what they felt they had to do even when it involved breaking the law. Of course the protestors also deserved to pay the legal price for their action.
Whether Col. Boylan was drunk or extremely fatigued when he responded to you, he needs to be removed from his position and perhaps the Army. He has provided you Glenn the opportunity to take actions that will give the extremely dangerous politicalization of our military the visibility it needs in these critical times.
Here are some suggested actions:
Send a letter devoid of any of the emotional diatribe of Col. Boylan’s tone, as you do in all your articles, to SECDEF Gates with copies to Gen. Petraeus, CINCCENTCOM, the secretary and chief of staff of the Army, and the chairman of the armed services committees in the House and Senate. Also write an op-ed piece and send it to all the major newspapers in the country. Your commentariat and other bloggers can also write letters to the editor. Send another letter to the appropriate House and Senate committees asking for full investigations as well as any appropriate inspector generals.
For whatever his reasons, Col. Boylan has insulted our constitution and the nation he serves and must be held fully accountable. Glenn, you are just the person to make that happen. And we will support you as we did during the recent Dodd days.
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Have they forgotten the Bush-flunkie filled Iraqi Provisional Government? Or FEMA?
To those questioning the authenticity of the email: Have you forgotten the people sent to run Iraq after shock & awe?
All you needed to get a job rebuilding Iraq were solid Republican credentials and less knowledge and competence then was needed to really do the job. If you made it through Pat Robertson's right-wing excuse of a school and knew anyone at The Heritage Foundation, you were in.
So home ec majors were handed billion dollars budgets to run jobs they had no skill or preparation for.
Why would anyone think that the PAO's would be any different, or any less partisan? Because they're in the military?
Reading assignment: Catch 22
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I'd watch out for ANY unsolicited email
The wingers have a history of gotcha electronic communication; I know because I've been pw0ned myself.*
And it's only going to get worse as we gear up for 2008 and their rage increases. It's right out of the Rovian playbook that they'd attack our strength in digital communication and a dense network of trusted though informal sources.
Maybe it reads like a parody because it is a parody. And I can read the headlines now....
* The underlying truth of the matter is that the Conservative movement makes no distinction between armed warfare abroad and political warfare at home. It is all the same battle to them. So consider email with faked headers, say, as a form of informational warfare. Not to be overly foily....
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Something like this - Pogue Colonel
Pogue Colonel: Marine, what is that button on your body armor?
Private Joker: A peace symbol, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Where'd you get it?
Private Joker: I don't remember, sir.
Pogue Colonel: What is that you've got written on your helmet?
Private Joker: "Born to Kill", sir.
Pogue Colonel: You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Private Joker: No, sir.
Pogue Colonel: You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man.
Private Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
Pogue Colonel: The what?
Private Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?
Private Joker: Our side, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Don't you love your country?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.
Private Joker: Aye-aye, sir.