At 01:30 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Gar Lipow wrote:
>>I forward the following without comment - it relates to previous
>>discussion today and yesterday on this list.'
>>Gar
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>>>Support Our Troops
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>>>By Michael Albert
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>>>If war comes even despite the historic, tenacious, and comprehensive
>>>opposition now raging across the planet, the U.S. government will
>>>proclaim triumphantly that everyone who isn't a traitor needs to
>>>rally around Washington to "support our troops." Opponents of the war
>>>could opt for many possible replies.
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>The ahistorical nature of the American Left never ceases to amaze and
>disappoint me. Once again we are witnessing the sorry spectacle of
>leftists trying to reclaim the phrase "support our troops."
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>Guess what folks? We tried to do that in the antiwar movement during Gulf
>War 1. It didn't work and only served to legitimize this phrase in its
>role in frothing up Americans into a patriotic fervor. This phrase can't
>be reclaimed and we waste our time trying to be cute about turning the
>meaning of the phrase around.
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>Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past. There have to be some snappy
>putdowns that can be used in response to this phrase. Let's reject
>"support our troops" instead of reclaiming it.
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>"Support the troops that shoot their officers."
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>Chuck0
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