Talk:David Montes

Hates the USA?
I think whoever added this bit is severely misconstruing what Montes meant. When the conversation turned to the PLR taking power in Iran, Matkovic called it "a country run by terrorists". The point that I believe Montes was making when he referred to the US as "made by terrorists, for terrorists" is that the Revolutionary War was, as viewed by the British crown, an insurgency where the Colonists were the insurgents and terrorists. This is reinforced when he makes the statement "history is written by the victor". The Colonists won the revolutionary war (as most people on this Wiki probably already know) and so they were the ones to write that chapter of history, painting themselves as the "freedom-loving good guys" and the British Empire as the "imperialistic bad guy". It's a question of perception, and what Montes is saying is that the PLR view themselves as the freedom-loving good guys and the United States as the imperialistic bad guy. In that way, he was comparing the wars in Iraq/Iran to the American Revolution. I don't think it has anything to do with he himself hating the United States. Otherwise, I doubt he'd be in the Marines in the first place. Ghost Leader 14:47, October 26, 2011 (UTC)