Joe Powell's take on the subject of Fred's gushy, buttkissing ode to soldiers.
What IS it that makes these Chickenhawk Republicans so pro-military once they're past service age? The way they romanticize the armed services, you'd at least expect their sons to have enlisted, right, Tony Thompson?*
*This would be Fred's boy, who is nobly serving his country as a high-dollar lobbyist down on Capitol Hill in Nashville -- He's an ecumenical kind of guy who's in bidness with old McWherter crony Harlan Mathews, which demonstrates that it's a small world after all because Mathews briefly held the US Senate seat vacated by Al Gore and subsequently won by Ole Fred.
But back to my pro-military theme -- what does it say about Ole Fred that he seems intent upon capsizing the candidacy of his erstwhile best friend John McCain, a genuine war hero whose service record was smeared by the Bush campaign during the 2000 GOP primary fight?
Nuttin' good, I'd say.
p.s.: This probably doesn't need to be said, but Fred, of course, had better things to do than sign up to save democracy in SE Asia back when he was cannon fodder age. Like running errands for Howard Baker, which was a job with a future.
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I point to Andrew Bacevich's
I point to Andrew Bacevich's book ad nauseum, but he really does nail down the driving forces behind the fetishization of all things military. In addition to all the gung-ho, johnson-swinging posturing, Bacevich says talking about the troops is a way of fantasizing about Leave it to Beaver 'merican values. It's the last refuge of the value-pimping scoundrels, because no one actually believes civilians are virtuous. From the book's introduction:
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Sven,
How do you sleep at night? You post is sad really. You could care less about what a soldier does or is prepared to do for you. Do you know what's even ironic, they don't care either, they just do it anyway.
I think Wayne proves Sven's
I think Wayne proves Sven's point in a way that words from me probably can't...
and as much as I hate to admit it, mentalities like Wayne's are probably why the Dems passed the craptastic war funding bill last week...sucks that it's probably going to have repercussions in '08, since the Congressional Dems were elected to do something about this morass.
You could care less about
You could care less about what a soldier does or is prepared to do for you.
Actually, Wayne, I think you mean to say "could not care less" in that statement. You are implying that Sven has the capacity to care less than you think he does when you probably are trying to tell us that he cannot.
It's a common misuse of the phrase.
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I saw the first Thompson
I saw the first Thompson bumper sticker yesterday. It was in Clinton, on a rainy road (hooray!), on the car of some nutter following about ten feet behind the guy in front of him at about fifty mph. When we stopped for a light there it was.
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He'll tell you himself...
Yes but "things have changed", Fred says. This is to be the constant message both excusing his past and justifying the endless war policy.
from today's KNS article
"And I think the country's different. I think we have challenges now that we didn't have in 2000."