What do you think of those who question others' support for our troops?

Question

I think that questioning one's support of the troops has become a distractionary technique that certain individuals use to invoke emotional responses rather than rational thought. I think that there are those who are trying very hard to cover an agenda which has neither the American public interest nor that of the soldiers sworn to fight for the American people. The agenda is to divide the soldiering and policing class of our society from the society it is supposed to protect and get them to support the hierarchical structure of commercialism. The president and vice presidents actions are not about our community. They are not about equality, nor are they about freedom. It is all about an extremely oppressive hierarchical system of power and domination. It is not about Democracy, it is about money, it is about capitalism a game that certain individuals dominate and want to continue on a world wide game board. The really sh*tty thing is that this selfishness and greed, is all being done

in democracy's name as well as being done in the name of America with America's resources, when there is clear evidence of many social minded and very generous American people, who would clearly rather world peace and community to American dominance.

Answer 1

This is more of a rant than a question. It is very well thought out, but far too long for the average answerer's attention span.

Answer 2

If the average user can't pay attention long enough to read that, I understand why your country thinks G Bush is a great leader!

You are right: the 'don't undermine our troops' line is simply there to silence opposition, and unfortunately it works very well.

The soldiers and the politicians/business interests who sent them are two different entities. During Vietnam, when Democrats were in power, many far-right wingers had no trouble constantly attacking the 'civilians meddling in military affairs' (General Curtis Le May, Admiral Ulysses Sharp, for instance). Of course, regardless the civlians should give the military a clearly-defined and achievable mission, and the resources to achieve it.

The government also owe it to the military to gather support behind them, to give their mission legitimacy. Bush didn't do that, in fact betraying the military by knowingly telling lies about the reasons for war. There was a lot of opposition, but he didn't seek to convert, only to bluster and belittle and use accusations of cowardice and malice. Today, the war opponents have been proven right.

Finally, Rumsfeld deliberately avoided planning for the post-occupation phase of the war. Soldiers who wanted this planning were sidelined. The experienced and respected Colin Powell was kept on a position of no influence by the puppeteers controlling Bush. Idiots with no military experience- Perle and Wolfowitz- were allowed to control the US military.

One could ask- for what reason did they do this? Why did they want this war to go ahead so quickly, when there was no urgent threat (and in fact no threat at all)? The answer to this lies in the money trail.

If 'supporting the troops' means allowing them to be used to boost the profits of liars, soft men who never go in harm's way, men who see no evil in making millions while good-willed American troops die, then no, I don't support the troops.

A final consideration is to look at history: how many campaigns have been lost through poor leadership, and how many have been lost because the people at home 'didn't support the troops'? Lots, and almost none, respectively.

Answer 3

Cheney is clearly trying to shame people who are against the war into keeping their mouth shut about it and persuade them against supporting the efforts of our Congress to push Iraq to step up to their responsibilities to strengthen their own government. I think he has made his "not supporting the troops" statement one too many times. (at least)

I think our Congress is doing the right thing even though I don't think they are going to be able to get the troops out of there as soon as they would like.

We'll find out how much Cheney has benefited monetarily from Haliburton from the war soon in the Congressional hearings coming up. Should be very interesting.

Answer 4

it is a radical thing to do.

when you see someone trying to replace thought and reason with fear, you are dealing with a radical...