LA Times Columnist Doesn’t Support the Troops. Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein admits that he grew up with money and hasn't so much as served jury duty for his country. I, on the other hand, grew up with no money and have served in the Marines and the National Guard. We do have one thing in common though: we don't "support the troops."
Stein has no problem with people who are for the war supporting the troops. "But I'm not for the war," he says. "And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken -- and they're wussy by definition."
I don't believe for a New York minute that Barbara Streisand, Michael Moore, John Kerry, et al. really support the troops. They only say they do for political expediency, which just goes to show that the anti-war left is no more trustworthy than the warmongering right. If you think invading Iraq was wrong, why would you "support the troops?"
The American military has been all-volunteer since 1973, and as Stein observes"...when you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you're not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you're willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism, for better or worse. Sometimes you get lucky and get to fight ethnic genocide in Kosovo, but other times it's Vietnam."
Stein goes on to say,"I'm not advocating that we spit on returning veterans like they did after the Vietnam War, but we shouldn't be celebrating people for doing something we do't think was a good idea."
Click here to read the rest of Joel Stein's funny, perceptive article, and here to read my previous post on the same subject.
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