Reply #24: To quote Pres Truman

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from "Plain Speaking" by Merle Miller when asked why he fired
Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
"I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the
President. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because
he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not
against the law for generals. If it was half to three-quarters
of them would be in jail. That's why when a good one comes along
like General Marshall....why, you've got to hang onto them, and
I did." I think Gen. Boykin must fall within that half to three-quarters President Truman mentioned. Anyone who believes God
placed the Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief in the Presidency is living in
an the era of George III and Louis XIV and is certainly not mentally capable of a military command or policy making position. I do not,
however, believe for one instant that Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief will
do anything about Gen. Boykin's disrespect of authority or the fact
he may well be a dumb s.o.b. as described by President Truman.