Jesus Christ, people cream their shorts for military leaders. The link is to ESPN's pro basketball blogger, Henry Abbott, drooling over NBA commissioner David Stern's decision to hire retired General Ronald Johnson to the newly created position of VP of Referee Operations.
See the NBA has had some image problems lately, such as refs threatening to beat up star players, or refs working games where they gave "tips" to organized crime figures. So in what Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is calling "the exact right move," the NBA brings in an Army General to straighten things out.
I guess it is the exact right move the way Abbott is responding, too blinded by the uniform to realize that this guy was the leader in an organization of tens of thousands of trained killers, a manager in a war crime responsible for the deaths of over a million people. I guess genocide and frenzied looting and war profiteering make fixing games and starting fights seem like less of a big deal. The article mentions that in Iraq, Johnson oversaw billions of dollars of reconstruction. As far as I know, the reconstruction has been little more than a sloppily run corporate boondoggle, with billions of dollars missing and completely unaccounted for. Not sure exactly what role Johnson played, but "oversight of Iraq reconstruction" isn't something I'd highlight on a resume.
So, yeah, way to go NBA.
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