Pat Tillman
May. 4th, 2004 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleThis is a link to a cartoon by Ted Rall about the late Pat Tillman. http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/
Mr. Rall has apparently received a lot of criticism about it and MSN has decided that this might make them look unprofitably bad, so they have pulled it from their website (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20040504/en_bpiep/rallstillmancartoonpulledbymsnbccom).
I agree with Mr. Rall's overall criticism of the war on terror (or at least, Mr. Bush's handling of it). However, the obituary I read of Mr. Tillman, which interviewed friends and colleagues, made him sound like a very private person. I am uncomfortable with impugning Mr. Tillman's motives for enlisting in the army. I agree that, as a means of service to his country, it wasn't the best choice he could have made, but I don't think that he should be mocked because of it. He has paid for his misplaced loyalty to a corrupt presidency with his life.
Mr. Rall has apparently received a lot of criticism about it and MSN has decided that this might make them look unprofitably bad, so they have pulled it from their website (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20040504/en_bpiep/rallstillmancartoonpulledbymsnbccom).
I agree with Mr. Rall's overall criticism of the war on terror (or at least, Mr. Bush's handling of it). However, the obituary I read of Mr. Tillman, which interviewed friends and colleagues, made him sound like a very private person. I am uncomfortable with impugning Mr. Tillman's motives for enlisting in the army. I agree that, as a means of service to his country, it wasn't the best choice he could have made, but I don't think that he should be mocked because of it. He has paid for his misplaced loyalty to a corrupt presidency with his life.
