Letters to the Editor
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Most dodged military service
What, like your fucking Great Leader??? AAAAAHHRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
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Who Served
For a reasonably detailed list of who has served and who has not, go to:
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
Robert
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In other words, another Weekly Standard...
...propaganda piece.
No basis in reality, cheerleads war, mocks peace, praises the wrong people while vilifying the right people.
Doesn't this generation's foremost propaganda minister, Bill Kristol, write for the Weekly Standard?
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More of the cult of bullying and hyper-masculinity, too.
I bet I could do more damage in the prison yard with a broken Snapple bottle than these guys have ever done in their whole lives.
More seriously, great post. Makes me so angry on behalf of the people I know who do serve in the military, though.
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The Empty Generation
They are empty cowards, stunted momma boys all scared of females and facts, who have no beliefs or ideals except to imagine their scrawny selves to be for once the captain of the football team. And somehow they managed to take control of our country, thanks to their uglier, weaker step-brother the Media. A disgrace all around.
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What an ass...
I would have highlighted this excerpt as well:
"In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, military service didn't occur to most young people as an option, let alone a duty."
Truly, the trustfund baby clique have never considered it a duty. Before during and after Vietnam, these people dodged service, had other people fight their existential battles, and cheered heroically from the sidelines.
So yeah, maybe there is a smidgen of unvarnished truth here. The fact is many young people do consider serving. Even with what happened in Vietnam and now Iraq. But nothing will persuade the College Republicans for serving. No sirree, they live by the policy of "No Trustfund Baby in the front line."
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LMAO
If not for the chickenhawks, we'd all be speaking arabic.
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Baby Boomers Also Cowardly Missed Neo-Jupiterian Invasion Dimension War
Although it's not well known because of its secret and entirely fictional nature, all right wingers enlisted and fought in the Neo-Jupiterian Invasion from the Dimension Troops. Their bravery in the face of giant claw-bearing and lightning throwing enemies will neither be publicly remembered nor, of course, documented, being fictional and all.
So, once again, the right wing bravely signs up and fights in a deadly, yet entirely unreal scenario, when a mere several million Americans served in the pathetic yet entirely real US wars against Indo-China, and some 58,000 of those lazy cowards dying as opposed to hanging around and making up new wars to fight.
Once again the right wing heroically sacrifices itself in its own imagination while the left contents itself with reality-based struggles. Typical.
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Take a walk along the wall in DC, you idiot
58,000 dead in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands injured. There were more casualties in Vietnam than we have troops in Iraq.
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Wow, that Jonah
Golberg sounds like one tough motherfucker. Wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley! I mean, shit, the guy doessn't even own sandals ... every generation has its he-man masculine icon, and for this generation, clearly Jonah Goldberg is it.
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It doesn't get better than this...
Oh how they hate being reminded of what cowards they are.
Digby's post on the subject was fantastic as I recall, and has some great insight into the twisted psychology of these guys that missed the sexual revolution and how that still screws them up. They know they missed out on getting laid when the getting was good, and they also missed out on what they believe to be what real men do, which is fight in wars, so their own perception of their manhood is tarnished, which is why they compensate by being so vocally belligerent at home.
Great put down, Glenn.
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College Republican Chickenhawks Get Busted
Discussion of Max Blumenthal's video in the Daily Kos:
www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/22/4291/04659
This is a diary of The Angry Rakkasan, he was infantry officer, with one tour in Afghanistan and another in Iraq.
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"In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, military service didn't occur to most young people as an option, let alone a duty."
What, the rest of those guys in the barracks were figments of my imagination?
This is typical of the pundit view of reality: I wasn't there to see it, so it didn't happen.
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NATIONAL CONSCRIPTION - NO EXCEPTIONS
There's an easy answer to the problem posed by Greenwald: national conscription, with NO deferments. That way, the chickenhawks will be FORCED to put their bodies where their mouths are, on the front line. Will never happen, of course....
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Re: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"
I think that any comparison of numbers between Viet Nam and Iraq needs to spend time reviewing the effect of the draft more completely. There were a lot of young men who did not have a choice and who knew they were going into a meat grinder of a war. The difference today is that Iraq is also a meat grinder, and many young men know this and that they don't have to go. How anyone can interpret this as some kind of patriotism just because they don't march in the street is either a mistake or an intentional oversight.
Many of the U.S. soldiers in Iraq joined because they didn't have many occupational choices, and many of them would leave the military tomorrow if they could. The Weekly Standard is engaging in sheer propaganda based on selective facts, and that needs to be pointed out.
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"The plastic people"
was the common vernacular used by the common ordinary people on the street back in the sixties of these people that evaded the war in Nam and preferred to go into college for the reason of not fighting in that glorious example of mass murder by the U.S., as I fall right into that age group and remember it well, in between acid trips.
The plastic people were usually from the upper middle class and were looked upon by the street person, the group I fit into as another term called "suits" and or "establishment" followers that liked to occasionally hang around with street people to experience the drugs and free love but not to get too dirty while doing it. They stood out like a sore thumb and most people I knew had no respect at all for them not because they thought they should go kill others but instead ran to the establishment for protection against any possibly danger,instead of facing the "man" in the streets in actual protests against the war.