Um, wow
"I don't support our troops...It's as if the one lesson [pacifists] took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward."
posted by Anonymous at 5:13 PM
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There is flaw in this compelling essay: the vast majority of the people serving in our military are not exactly prep-school darlings with a Milton Friedman Disneyland of rational choices to make.
The US military is a compelling and appealing career option if you're facing a lifetime wasting under the flourescents at Wal Mart.
Chomsky aside, we still can still reasonably think of ourselves at the guys who stopped the Nazis, and we still are, somewhere in there. Nobody signs to be instruments of imperialism.
However...
As Osama bin Laden pointed out...Every American taxpayer gives their tacit consent to American foreign policy.
Our troop's decision to forgo the moral implications of killing looks very much like my willingness to forgo the implications that my taxes may be killing people.
They didn't sign up for Iraq, and nether did I, but until I can figure out how to get my guys elected, I don't see why I can't support the young people that on some level, I have sent to a meaningless war.
and Oh yes, GO SEAHAWKS WOO WOO!!!
Whenever I decide to be intellectually lazy (which is quite often these days) I fall back on some issue I've already made up my mind on and apply the same thought pattern / resolution.
Soldiers = Labor
Pinheads who are calling the plays and botching the job = Capital
Basically, if your rank is Major or below you're the little guy.
And you have my support.
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