Bringing the Troops Home, Beginning with a Lieutenant Colonel
A Dishonorable Discharge for Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich would be a start. This officer epitomizes the insane combination of religious right and power mad, when they infiltrate and lie dormant within the American armed services. The classic comparisons to General Jack Ripper from Dr. Strangelove and his ‘precious bodily fluids’ are almost too easy.
A Dishonorable Discharge for Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich would be a start. This officer epitomizes the insane combination of religious right and power mad, when they infiltrate and lie dormant within the American armed services. The classic comparisons to General Jack Ripper from Dr. Strangelove and his ‘precious bodily fluids’ are almost too easy.
Case in point. David Finkel, in a stunning July 9th article in the Washington Post, describes Kauzlarich putting at risk the 27 members of his Alpha Company on a fool’s errand. From their Baghdad neighborhood combat outpost to an Army base four miles away, the purpose of which was to attend a memorial …