Michael Parenti -- Support our Troops?

The exercise of U.S. power is intended to preserve not only the international capitalist system but U.S. hegemony of that system. Why are we locked into such empty political rhetoric? In a recent post "Support Our Troops?" I tried to look at the mentality of supporting our troops and why I believe support is horrendously misplaced in this nation. The post was later published as a letter to the editor in the Modesto Bee. Another letter writer, a few days later, hoped that I was not the first person these soldiers see when they come home. I beg to differ. But first we must look at the mentality and why it is so pervasive. The "support" of our troops has been wielded over us like a sword of Damocles by the current Administration. It has been used to garner support for not our troops but rather the war. I will not and cannot support any war. How then can one who completely disagrees with war "support our troops"? It is not really possible. For any change to happen we have to look past this truly empty political rhetoric and find the heart of the issue. I "support" our troops in that I want them all brought home, alive and unharmed, now! Why is that such a difficult concept for "patriotic" Americans to understand? Forget the political rhetoric and bring our troops home now.

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Uploaded: February 5, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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