walk it off, private
The whole football team had turned out to support Hannity’s railing of the recent Rumsfeld Q&A “plant.” That reporters shouldn’t manipulate the news is a given, but there arose an odd tangent:
“We had to scrounge for parts too – that’s just a part of wartime.”
“We had to pull scrap from a junk yard in Danang. That’s just how it works.”
“They have to make due with what they’re given and just focus on their job.”
Did my ears deceive? Since when did saying “suck it up” become an element of our patriotic duty?
Were these the same patriots flaunting those “Support Our Troops” magnets on the back of their ironymobiles? The same patriots who plaster their vehicles with trite magnetic sentiments in such numbers as to outarmor the Humvees ultimately in question?
O, dread the day militants realize to fund their endeavors by selling fist-pumping Ameripatriotic drek!
posted by tokyocrunch @ 2:54 PM
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Right, whereas the anti-american zealots drive irony-free vehicles which never double as a PR junket for Noam Chomsky. The difference being that "Support Our Troops" is really easy to grok, while "War Is Not The Answer" means, well, what?
And yes, "Do what you can with what you have where you are" is as much a zeitgeist of wartime as a bullet. You go to war with the army you have. For example, in WWI, the US kept an enormous corp of horseman, because they were certain that they would be called upon - guess what? That our military was equiped for prior engagements is not revelatory. Liberals are shooting themselves in the collective feet by setting standards for action and responsibility that are irrational - although perhaps not as it seems those same liberals have arrogated to themselves the right to flout logic as necessary.
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