[lbo-talk] Re: "supporting the troops"

[Robert Naiman]

Back in Fort Bragg, Sergeant Clousing took his misgivings to
superiors. They sent him to a chaplain, who showed him in the Bible
where God sent his people to war, the sergeant said. Then they sent
him to a psychologist who said he could get out of the military by
claiming he was crazy or gay. Sergeant Clousing said he had not been
looking for a way out and found the suggestion offensive. He called a
hotline for members of the military run by a coalition of antiwar
groups. The man who took the call was Chuck Fager, who runs Quaker
House, a longtime pacifist stronghold in Fayetteville.

Fager said hotline receptionists took more than 7,000 calls from or
about military members last year. "I said to him, you're not crazy or
a heretic for having difficulty reconciling Jesus' teachings with
what's going on in Iraq."

7) A Soldier Hoped to Do Good, but Was Changed by War
Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, October 13, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/us/13awol.html

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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