When I hear people like Dennis Miller laugh and say, "Iran, you're next!" when HE isn't about to do a damn thing to "support the troops" (I don't think he's done any USO shows for instance, so if I'm wrong let me know) it's chickenhawkism at its finest.
Henry Rollins, who has done multiple USO tours, should so kick Dennis Miller's ass. I would pay money to see that.
* The idea that a military veteran would have an inherent moral superiority with regard to military matters is baseless because a majority of veterans never experience actual combat and those veterans with combat experience might have a distorted perception and pathological attraction to war because they enjoyed the experience of combat violence.
*blink* I had to read that three times to figure out that that was THEIR argument. That's so not!SUPPORT THE TROOPS that I can hardly wrap my brain around the fact that that's THEIR argument.
* That civilians who are explicitly targeted in war should have the right to voice their views on the conduct of war regardless of whether or not they have served in the military.
By this, I think they mean that the terrists attack civilian populations, like 9/11, so we are all "at risk." Despite the fact that we're all far more likely to die of heart disease or in a car wreck than from terrists. (Where's our War on Automobiles?) Each man an armchair commander, defending his castle, I suppose.
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Date: 2009-10-13 02:31 pm (UTC)Henry Rollins, who has done multiple USO tours, should so kick Dennis Miller's ass. I would pay money to see that.
* The idea that a military veteran would have an inherent moral superiority with regard to military matters is baseless because a majority of veterans never experience actual combat and those veterans with combat experience might have a distorted perception and pathological attraction to war because they enjoyed the experience of combat violence.
*blink* I had to read that three times to figure out that that was THEIR argument. That's so not!SUPPORT THE TROOPS that I can hardly wrap my brain around the fact that that's THEIR argument.
* That civilians who are explicitly targeted in war should have the right to voice their views on the conduct of war regardless of whether or not they have served in the military.
By this, I think they mean that the terrists attack civilian populations, like 9/11, so we are all "at risk." Despite the fact that we're all far more likely to die of heart disease or in a car wreck than from terrists. (Where's our War on Automobiles?) Each man an armchair commander, defending his castle, I suppose.