Re: I think the best way to support the troops is to get them the hell out of there, ASAP - we don't belong there.
I haven't really confronted any pro-war morons on this issue in a couple of years. I happened to run into a group of about five teenagers at one anti-war rally a couple years ago that is relevant to this discussion. These boys were across the street from the anti-war group, and were Boy Scouts. They were disparaging about the anti-war group, so I started to ask them about the war. The leader of this band was probably 15 years old, and he was damn good at parroting George Bush and Rush Limbaugh. I could see that he'd drunk too much of the Kool-Aid, but the younger boys seemed willing to hear me out when I talked about the obviousness of the lies we were being told. These kids had been brainwashed about "Supporting the Troops", and when I suggested that the best way to support troops was to keep them home and out of harm's way, it seemed like the boys were dumbfounded at the concept. The American sheeple are not real strong on logic, or good sense. So we ended our debate with their leader being just as brainwashed, me being just as anti-war, and some of the younger boys maybe a little more skeptical of their leader's good sense. To me, that was progress. |
