Talk:The Last Word

I want to put here on record my personal comment, which I think would be removed if I tried to put it in the article itself - namely, that Ccommodore MacDonald acts in a very stupid and highly irrsponsible way. For no better eason than to feel a personal satisfaction at the last moment of his life and "have the last word", he is babbling and gratuituously revealing to the Draka the basic American strategy. The Draka are clever and competent people, and this information which could have led to their leaving for later the putting down of the last resistance in America which is no threat to them, and giving all their energy to destroying the Americans in space before they could get established. MacDonald should have kept his mouth closed, and once knowing he was ireevocably captured should have bitten on his hollow tooth without wasting a moment. Turtledove could have let him make the defiant speech in the privacy of his own mind, accesible to the reader but not shared with the Draka. In my view, except for the fact that MacDonald died and that nobody on his side knew of his unneccesary talk, he richly deserved to be court-martialled. And Turtldove should have known better!Blaise MacDuff, the Purple Dragon 14:42, September 23, 2010 (UTC)