"support our troops" was floated as a political meme from the outset.
i dont know folks, bt to my mind you'd have to have been blind not to recognize that.
it has nothing to do with meaningful support of anything, really: on this pan and bor are exactly correct.
it was one of those wedge memes designed to split those who supported the bush people from those who did not, and which functioned to displace debate away from the myriad political problems attending the iraq war to something else, something dispositional and abstract. in itself, it means nothing. functionally, it was a pretty effective little meme, and the residuum of its effectiveness is playing out across this thread.
functionally, it meant: if you focus on the people being sent into disaster, if you feel for them, then it follows that you have to see any situation into which they are sent as legitimate (otherwise people would die for nothing, and that is not acceptable)...
have fun squaring that one in november 2006.
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