Reply #26: I am an American [View All]

[Brian_Expat]

So I'd appreciate you keeping your silly national disputes in check.

And I've never seen a post of yours criticizing the lack of coverage for casualties

Because you haven't been looking for such. You're just looking for a reason to to be "outraged."

Your post was directed at Tillman. You didn't call it a double standard. You called it a spectacle.

My post wasn't directed at Tillman, but oh well. I won't deny you your false outrage and chest thumping, etc.

The spectacle is indeed a double-standard. Nobody else has gotten near the coverage that Tillman did, including other self-made men (and WOMEN) who enlisted to go off and were killed.

The ONLY reason the media has picked this story is because of Tillman's celebrity status.

Hey, I don't decry the guy a thing. I think what he did was brave -- but no more or less brave and honourable than those who left a family or a life behind and came back in a flag-covered casket the Bushites don't want us to see.

This emphasis on the MONEY he turned down is also dehumanizing. It's saying "he gave up more than others" because he turned down millions while other people only gave up their families (which is presumed to be not that big a sacrifice).