PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE TROOPS
Speaking for myself, and myself alone, I’d like to propose that we strike the phrase “support our troops” from the English language…if for no other reason than it’s been rendered completely and utterly meaningless. Depending on your point of view, “support our troops” can mean anything from well-intentioned drives to create care packages to lazily and cynically slapping a magnetic ribbon on your SUV to using it to bludgeon those who don’t unquestioningly support Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader’s © Excellent Adventure in Iraq.
The reason I’m tired of the phrase “support our troops” is that no reasonable person DOESN’T support our men and women in uniform. They’re our sons and daughters; why wouldn’t we support them 110%? This is not about not wanting to properly fund and equip them, or whether they are worthy of our moral and emotional support. Those of our sons and daughters doing the fighting and the dying deserve, and are receiving, our support. They aren’t the problem. Those who sent them to where they’re risking their lives ARE. The neoCon thugs who created this war out of whole cloth, and then used 9.11 to sell it to us are responsible for creating and managing a war that has NOTHING to do with the war on terrorism in general or 9.11 in particular. What Iraq is about is anyone’s guess, and I suppose the answer to that question will depend on which side of the political divide you happen to fall on.
The whole “support our troops” charade was created by those with a vested interest in using our sons and daughters as political pawns in their geopolitical chess game (and who likely also hold stock in companies that make magnetic ribbons). “Support our troops” has become code for unthinkingly falling into ideological lockstep behind The Worst President EVER © . Those who refuse to fall in line can be, and have been, branded as “unpatriotic”, “unAmerican”, and- even worse- “not supporting our troops.”
I’d like to propose that use of the phrase “support our troops” be punishable by immediate and summary execution. This may seem a bit draconian, but you have to admit it will force the American sheeple to think (Yeah, that pain you’re having? That’s a thought….) twice about parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed since 9.11. Perhaps if enough of the American sheeple can be forced to think about what they’ve been party to since 9.11 we can end this travesty and bring our troops home.
WE DESERVE BETTER.
