The amazing controversy over General Boykin’s comments continue. As mentioned previously, one of the comments he made was this one:
\n“Why are terrorists out to destroy the United States? They’re after us because we’re a Christian nation.” <\/p>\n
Was he wrong? The evidence says he wasn’t. The most recent Osama bin Laden<\/a> tape quotes bin Laden as urging a holy war against American “crusaders” (a reference to the European Crusades in the early part of the last millennium.) <\/p>\n So, tell me. Why are the Generals comments so offensive? According to MSNBC and the LA Times, the truth is wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The amazing controversy over General Boykin’s comments continue. As mentioned previously, one of the comments he made was this one: “Why are terrorists out to destroy the United States? They’re after us because we’re a Christian nation.” Was he wrong? The evidence says he wasn’t. The most recent Osama bin Laden tape quotes bin Laden … Continue reading “General Boykin was right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}