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Reply to "Flags, Crosses & Circuses... And Apathy!!:"

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Originally posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:
Is this an admission that you don't support our troops?


Face it, Hoober--the "troops" have been and always will be pawns in the game in which old men send young men to war. Sometimes those wars are justified; sometimes they are not. The "troops" went to Vietnam and over 50,000 of them never came back alive, and THAT was a misbegotten war that gained this nation nothing.

The Bushian/Rumsfeldian/Cheneyian misadventure in Iraq was a huge error, engendered by bogus information, and it has gained us nothing close to what it has cost us and never will. It is not my obligation or anyone else's to support either of those wars simply because we sent thousands of troops to fight in them. If those wars were wrong, they were wrong.

As to Afghanistan, we can fairly claim justification for the initial invasion of that nation, which harbored the Taliban, a demonstrated enemy of this nation, connected to 9/11. But our fumbling leaders messed that one up by moving the "troops" out too soon and hastily transferring too many of them to Iraq, thus leaving the opportunity for a Taliban comeback, which is just what happened.

So, Hoober, it is not such a simple proposition as whether one does or does not "support the troops. The larger, and meaningful, question is whether the wars we initiate are wars deserving of the support of the American people.

Going back to Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq--it looks like this country has pretty sorry record of choosing when and where to wage war. Our losses in lives and treasure hardly justify those engagements. The "troops" who died in those wars did what they were told, as all good soldiers do, but what they were told to do was in many ways waste and folly, and that is no way to treat the "troops."

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