While my views on the war on Iraq are no secret, I’ve kept them to myself in my daily posts on the search for the three U.S. soldiers kidnapped in an Al Qaeda-led ambush in the Triangle of Death.
I don’t typically hold back, but the decision to separate the politics from the people was quite conscious: What I think about the war in no way diminishes my respect for the warriors, especially amidst a profoundly awful occurence such as this.
Having said that, I’m going to kind of break my rule by stirring in another hot button issue in what passes for discourse in America – immigration reform.
Why?
Because there have been some astoundingly virulent comments about immigrants at The Moderate Voice that need to be put in perspective on this Memorial Day weekend as the search continues for the two remaining missing soldiers — Private Byron W. Fouty and Specialist Alex R. Jimenez.
Fouty is kind of a funny sounding name, but I don’t think he is an immigrant. You can be sure, however, that his forebears were.
Jimenez, on the other hand, is one of those immigrants that people blithely oblivious to the struggles of their forebears or so caught up in their own xenophobic anger are railing against in the reform “debate.” One of the railers includes a troll at The Moderate Voice who wrote earlier this week that . . .
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