[The Reaper]

Weak, weak, weak.

The men he decries as "not heroes" did not choose to fight in those conflicts, they were sent there by a democratically elected civilian government.

Obviously his studies at UMass of Afro-American Music did not include sufficient unbiased History or Political Science courses for him to understand the nature of the conflicts, or to provide an intelligent and informed commentary.

I wonder if he would prefer that PR still be a Spanish colony, or in the condition of the Spanish colonies that were cut loose or revolted, like his neighbors, Cuba or the Dom Rep. Last time I checked, people were fleeing those former Spanish colonies for PR and eventually, the CONUS.

I suppose that he should ask the citizens who survived the INVASION of South Vietnam by the North, the citizens of Cuba who are political prisoners today after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the people of Nicaragua under the kindness of the Sandanistas who were turned out in the first Democratic elections after seizing power in a bloody coup, the citizens of Haiti who have only known freedom and prosperity when U.S. troops secured their nation from internal despots, the citizens of Grenada who were being forcibly taken over by a Cuban supported Marxist minority, Panamanians who were being killed and tortured by Noriega, The Philippines which last time I checked, were a free nation at the cost of tens of thousands of American lives paid on several occasions, and Iraq 2004, where Sadaam had killed and tortured millions.

It would appear that young Rene has no problems ignoring colonialism and dictatorships, as long as they are hostile to the U.S. To review, he would prefer Ho's Communist Vietnam violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, Castro's Communist Cuba also violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, the Sandanista's Communist Nicaragua violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, Cedras (or Baby Doc's) military dictatorship in Haiti violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, Bishop's military dictatorship in Grenada violating the human rights of thousands with no democratically elected government, Noriega's military dictatorship of Panama violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, the Spanish colonial government and Japanese military governments of the Phillipines violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, the Spanish colonial government of Puerto Rico violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government, and Sadaam's military dictatorship of Iraq violating the human rights of millions with no democratically elected government while supporting terrorism and developing (and using) WMD. Notice a trend here?

Let us poll the citizens of those nations and see whether they would prefer to return to the regimes which we helped them depose, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Americans and untold billions of dollars of U.S. citizen's tax money. What have we gotten in return?

He needs to look at the cover of Time's Man of the Year issue and reflect how many millions of people on this planet live in freedom, security, and under a representative democracy ONLY BECAUSE OF the men he labels as "not heroes."

Clearly, he deserves whatever happens to him, and should flee the evil U.S. to an oppressed third world country to liberate it, rebuild it, and offer the people a democratic elected government without any interference from American "not heroes".

Can UMass revoke his degrees on grounds of his lack of intellectual capacity?

TR