seaver: what i meant is that as a meme, as a device that operates in a context of opinion management, "support our troops" has a simple effect of creating false dilemmas. the logic of these false dilemmas should be obvious--they are not rocket science to work out. you support "our boys" then you support the war, the administration blah blah blah: if you oppose the war, then you oppose our boys, blah blah blah.
the meme has effects all the way around, but i dont see them as "evenly distributed"---those who are inclined to the right seem much more willing to internalize the meme-logic and to speak through it than those who are not so inclined. but it effects all sides in that it sets up a wholly fake set of questions/problems that you have to get through before you can have anything like a rational debate about the iraq debacle across political lines.
loquitor: that last post....its reasoning...is nonsense.
a reverse domino theory on top of it?
geez.
are you speaking on your own behalf, or working in some ironic way with assumptions that you know about but do not share?
i vote that you should answer (b).
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