It surprises me that you would let someone as unoriginal as David Roberts write a column for your newspaper. He considers himself an expert on the subjects of politics and America’s military.
He calls president Clinton a, “pot-smoking draft-dodger,” but he doesn’t anything about George W. Bush avoiding Vietnam. Vice-President Gore could have probably joined the Army as an officer and received an easy job at the Pentagon with his Harvard diploma and his father as a Senator. But he enlisted in the Army and volunteered to go to Vietnam.
Roberts also writes that the morale of the military is low. As an Army veteran and member of the Oklahoma Army National Guard, I can say morale is just as high today as it ever has been. I can almost guarantee Roberts has never served in the military, so I wonder where he is getting his information. Could it be that he is repeating the same stuff I hear from that coke-sniffing, draft-dodger Bush?
I am a believer in the First Amendment and I believe Roberts has the right to say and write what he wants to, but I would hope that the editors would expect something more original from their writers.
Chris Brown
undecided sophomore