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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
it could certainly be said of some of them. but the "put-up-or-shut-up" scales will always tip in their favor in a free society.
waging war necessarily involves spending lots of money and putting people in danger. i feel blessed to say that protesting does neither.
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I would say
most. Most of the people that supported and continue to support our current extracurricular activities support them only so much so as to not be willing to actually fight them. America is a nation of chicken hawks, one need look no further than the tfp to see this. How many of the pro-war members have actually made a single significant sacrifice for the war effort (yellow ribbons don't count)? I don't have the stats, but i would guess less than 20%.
It is exceedingly easy to sit on one's ass and scream for an invasion when one doesn't really have anything at stake beyond some vague notion of national pride or a false sense of security. It is also exceedingly irresponsible and cowardly to call for others to die for a cause when one is unwilling to do so oneself.
Protesting is another means to another end. It worked in the civil rights movement, where a war would certainly have failed miserably.