This is a follow up e-mail from jjkirk....
Post away, Tim. And you can use jjkirk, since that is my SI moniker. And, since I've just completed the following rant, you can post that too!...jj
Tim, I've had nothing but positive comments from my Naval Academy classmates. Steven S Reinemund, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsico, is supposedly a Naval Academy Graduate, 10 years' my younger. Also, he is rumored to be an ex-Marine. Regardless of his past, he has failed until he comes to grips with the drift his company is taking, sacrificing national truths on the altar of international liberalism.
My first notice of this was Lindy's post on his board... Message 21341970 quoting Hugh Hewitt's blog. I had already written and launched my email to the Pepsico board before reading that post all the way to the bottom, so my stating that I was a USNA graduate was pure serendipity...at that point, I had not read that the CEO was a USNA grad.
I could have gone on for pages about the fact that, like Reinemund, I had an MBA, yet mine was from the Univ of Hawaii where in 1976-1979 large numbers of the students in the School of Business were Asians from Hong Kong, Singapore, etc., and were probably 15th generation merchants. Also, I lived in Asia for 6 years in the Marine Corps, including two tours in VietNam.
Just as I had not earned the right to criticize these people, this foreign woman, regardless of her paper citizenship, has not earned the right in a public forum to suggest to a bunch of liberal students, faculty and reporters at a liberal college that America renders the middle finger to the rest of the world. For her to spout the so-called world view of pure criticism without one shred of acknowledgement that she and many, many more people in that part of the world would be speaking only Japanese, German, Russian, Italian or Chinese had it not been for the extended hand of the United States is unexcusable. Then, for her parent company, whom she represents despite the denials, to fail to respond to the pointed criticism leveled at them....this can only be met by a swarm of protests via email and in the halls of commerce until Pepsico seriously examines the situation and quits hiding behind her so-called apology.....jj |
