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| Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| Supporting the troops, unless they're dead |
 How do you show support to the troops? It's a good question. By sending supplies or raising money for families? By urging your congressman to push for better pay and healthcare for members of the uniformed military? By railing in favor of the war on talk radio or the blogosphere? By selling the policy in your official capacity at a leading newspaper? By calling for them to be brought home and misused no more? Or by trashing those who don't share your support for the war, whatever their opinion of the troops -- including those whose opinion of said troops is shaped by familial proximity ...
Here's the way one ardent war supporter found to honor the troops in Crawford: by dragging an iron pipe attached to his truck over a row of white crosses adorned with the names of troops who've died in Iraq, along with tiny American flags. Yep. Sounds like the Bush cult supports the troops like crazy. Any conflagration on the right over what should be a seminal embarassment to them? Not so far. So far, we've got Christopher Hitchens staggering through another slurry war defense/Sheehan bash, which of course starts out with a supposed Sheehan quote that both she, and ABC News, the supposed repository of the email containing said quote -- deny came from Sheehan ...
Michelle Malkin manages to squeeze in a drop of outrage over the "nutball" desecrator in between liberal bashing and Sheehan slamming... remember, this is your sides nutball, Madge... and her tracks include a few assorted tisk-tisks along with still more Sheehan whipping.
The Jawa Report offers as reasonable a deconstruction of the Sheehan issue as you're probably going to get from the right, along with a "Hitch" correction on a key point:
I don't think it outrageous to claim that Cindy Sheehan does have some moral authority that I, for instance, lack. But it seems to me that if there's such a thing as "moral standing" to comment on a war, it resides a great deal more with those who are actually serving, and especially those soldiers who have also lost friends and comrades in the fight. And it does make sense that those who pay the costs have greater moral authority that those of us who are shielded from sacrifice (by an administration that for some inexplicable reason refuses to ask very much of its citizenry). Let's be realistic. TJR goes on to agree with Hitchens on the point of "infantilizing" the dead by presuming that by default, "they was had..."
The sad thing is, the kind of vitriol you hear coming from the House of Limbaugh, including the normally funny and non-Bush-bot Glenn Beck, who has taken to calling Ms. Sheehan a bereavement whore or some such nonsense, is exactly symmetrical with the supposed nut-job in Crawford. He was acting out the same kind of venom he probably heard that afternoon on right wing talk radio. When Freepers attack, it helps to remember who feeds them... |
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