April 29, 2004
PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF STUPIDITY
UMASS grad student Rene Gonzalez demonstrates how little higher
education can be worth by writing in the school newspaper that Ranger
Pat Tillman--killed
href="http://www.lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=457&mode=&order=0&thold=0">in Afghanistan last week--was not a
hero, but a pendejo, or idiot. The whole piece is floor-to-ceiling jackassery of the vilest sort,
but here's a particularly salient piece of mental decrepitude:
Tillman, probably acting out his nationalist-patriotic fantasies forged in years of exposure to Clint Eastwood and Rambo movies, decided to insert himself into a conflict he didn't need to insert himself into. It wasn't like he was defending the East coast from an invasion of a foreign power. THAT would have been heroic and laudable. What he did was make himself useful to a foreign invading army, and he paid for it. It's hard to say I have any sympathy for his death because I don't feel like his "service" was necessary. He wasn't defending me, nor was he defending the Afghani people. He was acting out his macho, patriotic crap and I guess someone with a bigger gun did him in. [Emphasis mine.]Talk about short memories! The author apparently forgets that almost three years ago, our East coast was invaded by a group of foreigners who killed thousands of people. Hmmm, where were they from again? Oh yeah, Afghanistan, where they were hosted by a fanatical religious regime called the Taliban! I suppose in the author's mind, we should have overlooked Pearl Harbor in 1941 and waited until the Japanese were wading ashore the California coast before we took any defensive action. If one wanted to construct the ultimate strawman to mock the stupidity of a certain political element, it could not be done better than by relying on the real-life idiocy of someone like Rene Gonzalez. Tagged:
Posted by Lexiphane at April 29, 2004 9:40 AM
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