Widow Karen Mendoza asked her husband's fellow Marine officers and his men to write something about Maj. Ray J. Mendoza that his children, Kiana and Alek, could read when they were older. One of the officers who responded was Maj. Doug Zembiec, a 1991 La Cueva High School graduate legendary among Marines in Iraq as the Lion of Fallujah.
I guess it was someone else's father who killed the Indians, enslaved the Africans, launched a war against Mexico, tried to split the Union, oppressed blacks with Jim Crow laws, favored isolationism in WW I and II, quashed dissent with McCarthyism, fought for civil rights, opposed the war in Vietnam, exposed Watergate and Iran/Contra, tried to impeach a president, ignored the warnings about Al Qaeda, and proved Bush a liar for invading Iraq under false pretenses.
Yeah, I guess Mendoza's ancestors weren't among the cowards who hid in the shadows sniveling that America was God's gift to the world. That Indians and other minorities were inferior and deserved what they got. That anyone who criticized our country's flaws was a dupe or a traitor. Thanks for the insight, Zembiec...not.
Actually, I don't think these people were sniveling cowards. It just sounded good to say so. They may have been stupid ignoramuses who couldn't put together a valid argument if they tried, but they weren't afraid. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they trumpeted their idiocies from the highest reaches of power.
Incidentally, you can bet Mendoza was a Bible-toting Christian. You can tell by how proud he was about going to war and killing people. Jesus must be rolling in his grave at the thought of taking credit for millions of deaths. "Kids, we incinerated countless numbers of civilians, and God loves us for it."
For more on the subject, see America the Conservative and The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel.
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5 comments:
"Another mindless defense of American "patriotism" and conservative "values"...sigh."
I can't see anything particularly right wing about this letter; interesting how you label anything you disagree with as 'conservative'. Try going a day without all that mindless dualism. Also what's wrong with something being proud of their country? It's sad that you seem to take issue with someone being proud of their country.
"enslaved the Africans"
Almost every single people on earth have had slaves; including your beloved Indians, perhaps because of the slaves Indians owned, Native Americans shouldn't be proud to be native?
"favored isolationism in WW I and II"
Staying out of WW 1 would have been the smart thing; it was a stupid cause and countless young men had to die for nothing. And the idea that America had no interest in WW 2 prior to pearl harbor is a myth. Nine months before Pearl Harbour, the Lend Lease Act was passed. This bill ensured the President of the United States could “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of” any defence article to the Allied Powers.[7] Prior to Pearl Harbour, $14,281 million was authorised by Congress for Lend-Lease, with $1,082 million going to Britain. Prior to Pearl Harbour, American public opinion had already moved in favour of assisting Britain even at risk of war. Anticipating conflict, the US army had already grown massively in the previous months from 267,767 personnel in 1940 to 1,460,998 by mid-1941.
"quashed dissent with McCarthyism"
Oh please McCarthyism weren't the pogroms leftists make them out to be.
"Incidentally, you can bet Mendoza was a Bible-toting Christian."
Thanks for the fine example of stereotyping.
"You can tell by how proud he was about going to war and killing people."
Unless you have evidence that he killed noncombatants, he did nothing wrong.
"Jesus must be rolling in his grave at the thought of taking credit for millions of deaths."
Could you specify these 'millions'?
From the moronic essays you linked to your idiotic post:
"The common thread is that conservative/libertarians can't stand anything but the status quo—what they consider normal or customary or "right." "
Another example of stereotyping and conservativism and libertarianism are not the same.
"Which of course is why they're conservative/libertarians. Liberalism is tolerant and conservatism isn't, and conservative/libertarians can't tolerate that."
Ahh your dualism is so stupid it's almost amusing.
"More militia strikes and anti-abortion terrorism. More white-boy shootings and violence. More racial, religious, and sexual discrimination. These are all symptoms of the Darwinist struggle for survival—the chaos "libertarians" would foist on us if they could."
And more stereotyping! Thanks for telling us what every single libertarian on the face of the planet wants; good to know you've read all their minds and know they all want the same thing *sarcasm off*
It does come across more than a bit Jeremiah Wright-ish, and I don't think it makes many, if any, good points.
"Oh please McCarthyism weren't the pogroms leftists make them out to be."
Good point. While it did go way overboard, the main target was actual Soviet agents/operatives.
Thanks, it's also worth pointing out that McCarthy was not actually involved in the HUAC.
Not to mention it should be noted that Rob's wrong to call the Oklahoma city bombing a 'militia strike' the FBI concluded that a militia was not involved.
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