Militarism: America’s state religion
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
07/27/07
According to the neocon party line, if you don’t support the war, the ’surge,’ and Our Glorious Leader, then you don’t support the troops — and yet, when one of these heroes writes a true account of what it’s like out in the field, the devotees of their cult on the home front are suddenly contemptuous of ‘the troops’ — or, at least, this particular soldier, who is now being demonized as little short of a traitor — if not a Stephen Glass-in-fatigues — by all right-thinking neocon clones. It’s pathetic, really, to see how quickly these strutting little militarists turn on the military, when one of them fails to live up to the mythic image so carefully nurtured by the War Party...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11356
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+party
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
by Justin Raimondo
07/27/07
According to the neocon party line, if you don’t support the war, the ’surge,’ and Our Glorious Leader, then you don’t support the troops — and yet, when one of these heroes writes a true account of what it’s like out in the field, the devotees of their cult on the home front are suddenly contemptuous of ‘the troops’ — or, at least, this particular soldier, who is now being demonized as little short of a traitor — if not a Stephen Glass-in-fatigues — by all right-thinking neocon clones. It’s pathetic, really, to see how quickly these strutting little militarists turn on the military, when one of them fails to live up to the mythic image so carefully nurtured by the War Party...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11356
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=militarism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+party
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
rudkla - 27. Jul, 11:19
