Left Wing Candor

It's not often you see it in such full blossom, but there it is.

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I Don't Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
by lurxst
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 04:27:34 PM PDT

This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don't know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.

Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.

(HT: Little Green Footballs, which pulled a screencap in case this diary succumbs to that common Kosian scourge of Candor Evaporation Syndrome.)