So...
Apparently there's a protest this weekend at the Pentagon. As we always say, "It's great weather for a protest. Who has a topic?" Once again I must consider one of my favorite ideas: carrying a completely ambiguous sign to a protest.
I have this completely tangential view on the subject of Iraq, and nobody at a protest would ever understand.
"I don't like the war but our troops are not evil and we should probably finish the job.*"
Doesn't make a good sign.
The whole hatred of the US/troops thing really gets to me, though, and it kinda makes me want to join the counter-protest. The troops did what they were ordered to do, the guy who gave the orders was elected President, and Congress authorized the war. Deal with it. Maybe next time you'll stand up to your representatives and force them to be more careful before doing something like this in the first place. Now that we're there, if we just run away and everything goes to hell we will have caused what is going on and all the bad things the anti-war crowd says about the US will actually be true. Since we've pledged to support the Iraqis we need to support them to the end.
*I'm currently leaning towards breaking Iraq into 3 countries as the best solution. Why can't everyone just govern themselves? The way it is currently, whoever is in power will always take advantage of whoever is not. This is true of any government, and strangely enough was the main concern of my heroes the Anti-Federalists in the 1700s. Nothing is new here. Local government is always better for the rights of the people in the long run.
I have this completely tangential view on the subject of Iraq, and nobody at a protest would ever understand.
"I don't like the war but our troops are not evil and we should probably finish the job.*"
Doesn't make a good sign.
The whole hatred of the US/troops thing really gets to me, though, and it kinda makes me want to join the counter-protest. The troops did what they were ordered to do, the guy who gave the orders was elected President, and Congress authorized the war. Deal with it. Maybe next time you'll stand up to your representatives and force them to be more careful before doing something like this in the first place. Now that we're there, if we just run away and everything goes to hell we will have caused what is going on and all the bad things the anti-war crowd says about the US will actually be true. Since we've pledged to support the Iraqis we need to support them to the end.
*I'm currently leaning towards breaking Iraq into 3 countries as the best solution. Why can't everyone just govern themselves? The way it is currently, whoever is in power will always take advantage of whoever is not. This is true of any government, and strangely enough was the main concern of my heroes the Anti-Federalists in the 1700s. Nothing is new here. Local government is always better for the rights of the people in the long run.