Bury Me Broken

Why Democrats Really Hate the Troops

Jesse Taylor at Pandagon examines conservative blogger Dennis Prager's analysis of why liberals are being dishonest when they support the troops. Prager asserts:

Liberals, Democrats and others on the Left frequently state that they "support the troops." For most of them, whether they realize it or not, this is not true. They feel they must say this because the majority of Americans would find any other position unacceptable. Indeed, for most liberals, the thought that they really do not support the troops is unacceptable even to them.

Lest this argument be dismissed as an attack on leftist Americans' patriotism, let it be clear that leftists' patriotism is not the issue here. Their honesty is.

In order to understand this, we need to first have a working definition of the term "support the troops." Presumably it means that one supports what the troops are doing and rooting for them to succeed. What else could "support the troops" mean? If you say, for example, that you support the Yankees or the Dodgers, we assume it means you want them to win.

Taylor deconstructs the entire argument (probably after having taken Dramamine for the nausea) and I add my two cents in the comments section:

In categorizing most liberals monolithically, Prager fails to take in to account one group of us 'troop hating libruls,' those of us who have RELATIVES over there. Us poor libruls come from small towns like Piedmont, AL (where my mother was born) and Bell Buckle, TN (where my father was born).

My family is a military family because most African Americans from my parents' generation were the first to attend college, weren't land owners and knew that a commitment to the military could help attain a college education. I was in military, my father was military, my uncles were military, my mother-in-law was in the military, my cousin just returned from Iraq, his brother completed a twenty plus year Naval career by being held over two years beyond retirement.

So, do we 'troop hating libruls' want our family members dead or do we want them to come home safe and their buddies around them to die? Do we want our family members to see their friends dismembered and killed in front of them? Do we want our family members to come home without a limb?

I wonder everyday if those that hate those of us that use our brains for something other than enveloping propaganda or reinventing the wheel of poisoning the already poisoned ever stop to read what they write?

posted by niteskolar @ 12:28 PM