Re Pat Tillman

Unfriendly Fire

Okay, Pat Tillman's death was caused, not by Taliban, but "friendly fire." Friendly fire, to use an entirely appropriate football analogy, is  when during the frenzy a pulling guard backs into his own quarterback and knocks him down, except the consequences are a good deal more severe than losing 8 yards. In the history of warfare, the number of deaths caused by misdirected artillery, battle axe, or hurled rock are, well, greater than one. Nobody knows. My dad was killed by a German mortar round at he Bulge, but who's to say it was German, and not one with USA stamped on it?  Did my mother want to know, do you think? Is Mrs. Tillman more complete now? Do we really want a homicide investigation into every battlefield casualty? Can the revelation that our Unknown Soldiers hated Wilson, or Roosevelt, and wanted to come home be far behind? Oops, sorry, they were Democrat icons. Never mind that slip. During the Vietnam war era, which script anti-American groups like A.N.S.W.E.R are still refining, Carole Burnett inaugurated that concept in her role as Peg Mullen in Friendly Fire. I mention this because, in one of those refinements to the script, the left have substituted "fratricide" for "friendly fire."  The two are not analogous.  Marxist school teachers like Michael I. Niman at Buffalo State U., with the flick of a wrist, have made that transmogrification. Tillman was murdered.  Why?  Because he was collaborating with Noam Chomsky, another, more famous, hardcore America hating Marxist school teacher. Here's who Pat Tillman was. An American professional football player who turned down a multi-million dollar contract extension to serve his country. He was killed in action. That he, like everyone who has ever served (me included) questioned the sanity of his superiors, or the skill of Army cooks, is beside the point. He is a role model in the truest sense, and any nation that wants to preseve itself requires ideals like this to prevail. That explains the microscopic attention being payed by turds like Nimen.