Wanker of the day
Atrios, for drinking the “support the troops”
koolaid.
Joel Stein made two good points: 1) “I support the troops” will always been seen as “I support the war” and 2) all those public displays of support are just a cheap, cynical way for people to lessen their guilt over the Iraq War and it does nothing for the troops themselves.
The fact that so many socalled antiwar liberals like Atrios have reacted so aggresively to this, speaks volumes. Especially since a lot of the criticism is aimed not at Stein’s message, but at how politicially inconvenient it is for the antiwar movement, or the Democratic Party.