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March 07, 2003

Pro-military vs. Pro-peace?

Mark Morford of SFGate.com makes some good and interesting points here, couched in punchy, sarcastic, and fairly angry tones. The theme? The Lie Of The U.S. Military -- Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around?

He's not saying the military or the soldiers are lying...he just talks about one of the top old-hat cliches that's chucked at "peaceniks" by, well, anti-peaceniks, I guess.

You know the one. I'll let Mark describe it. Pardon the harsh language -- apparently Mark Morford doesn't mince words:


I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you know what you should do, you pathetic piece of liberal S.F. scum? You should kneel down right now and thank our angry God there's a hard-ass non-pussified non-wimpy U.S. military out there protecting your pathetic little butt, baby. Isn't that thoughtful?

You should be damn grateful, they scowl, that these fine men and women are risking their lives to ensure your right of free speech, your contemptible ability to scribble these pansy liberal words, to call Shrub a smirking daddy's boy, to suggest that God doesn't exist or that Lynne Cheney frightens small children and makes paint peel, all while remaining safe and cozy in your little hippie-happy tofu-licking gay-friendly S.F. cocoon, all protected and insulated and smug.

The overall gist of what he's getting at is summed up fairly nicely in his last two paragraphs:

I understand and value the need for a strong military. I appreciate the necessity. But the war in Iraq does nothing but denigrate the value and integrity of our military. Note to conservatives: Those soldiers aren't out there dying for you, they're dying for strategic political power, for some oil exec's portfolio. They're protecting the American oligarchy. Does that make you feel proud?

This war, then, is a direct slap in the face, an insult not just to progressives and liberals but to the country, and to the very soldiers themselves. I hereby kneel down in my liberal hippie gay-friendly S.F. cocoon and pray to my godless tofu-lovin' universe that they don't die in oily vain.

Read the full column.

(This is part of an attempt to try out posting more quick links with less comments, to see how I like it. I talked about that yesterday. I'm also curious to see if I get a substantially higher amount of traffic from the weblog aggregators (Weblogs.com, blo.gs, etc.) by posting many more times during the day. I generally only post once or twice, and almost always at night, when, I assume, those sites get -- and therefore generate -- less traffic.)

Posted by Lance Brown at March 7, 2003 10:26 AM | TrackBack
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hello, you have my vote. i think if you are pro peace, that is pro military.

Posted by: Deb child at April 19, 2003 02:04 PM
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