The sentiment is appreciated, especially I'm sure, by the thousands still stuck in the middle east and elsewhere around the world this Christmas season.
However, this board most of all should understand by now that the military is not only not keeping you safe or working to protect this country or our way of life, but it has actively doing the opposite by doing the bidding of beltway scumbags for over two decades.
"Support the Troops" is unfortunately just another agency messaging campaign to make it unthinkable (or at the very least unpatriotic) to oppose the forever wars, and to ensure that lack of public support doesn't derail this gravy train like it did the one in Vietnam.
The sentiment is appreciated, especially I'm sure, by the thousands still stuck in the middle east and elsewhere around the world this Christmas season.
However, this board most of all should understand by now that the military is not only not keeping you safe or working to protect this country or our way of life, but it has actively doing the opposite by doing the bidding of beltway scumbags for over two decades.
"Support the Troops" is unfortunately just another agency messaging campaign to make it unthinkable (or at the very least unpatriotic) to oppose the forever wars, and to ensure that lack of public support doesn't derail this gravy train like it did the one in Vietnam.