Thanks to Gleeful Extremist, who has a post on Pat Tillman, killed in Iraq last week, a link to this Spectator article is provided,
Tillman had it all. He married his high school sweetheart, Marie, honeymooned in Bora Bora in May, and returned to tell his agent and his coach of his decision. Tillman was joining the army. He wants to be a Ranger.
However, Rene Gonzalez, a undergraduate from University of Massachusetts has a different take,
This was a "G.I. Joe" guy who got what was coming to him. That was not heroism, it was prophetic idiocy. In my neighborhood in Puerto Rico, Tillman would have been called a "pendejo," an idiot.
Well, Tim Blair latched onto to this moron with a comprehensive post, followed by a comment box gone feral. And so it should. This is the style of warfare being fought, a fight from within, and just as damaging to a countrys morale as returning body-bags.
The cartoon is courtesy of more undergraduate deep-thinking at Indymedia/Portland.
UPDATE : The beat continues...
I thought Gonzalez was at the U of Massachusetts.
Posted by: Roberta | May 02, 2004 at 04:51 AM
True enough Roberta, I've fixed it. Cheers
Posted by: adrian | May 02, 2004 at 06:21 AM
Fuck you rene gonzalez! People like Patrick Tilman are the reason this country is so great. So great in fact that it even allows disgusting people like you to go to our schools, and for the people in your shit hole village in puerto rico their the reason why your country is still a shit hole begging for scraps from this great country. Made great by people like Pat Tilman. Go to hell BITCH
Posted by: Craig | January 29, 2006 at 08:01 PM
what crap.
Posted by: gandhi | April 30, 2007 at 02:16 PM