What all of this really reflects is the underlying and pervasive premise that those who advocate Americans wars are inherently patriotic and "pro-American," while it is always appropriate to impugn the patriotism and allegiances of those who oppose such wars (even when such war opponents are life-long civil servants or even military veterans).He's not wrong.
“Well, I've been in the city for 30 years and I've never once regretted being a nasty, greedy, cold-hearted, avaricious money-grubber... er, Conservative!” - Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 2, Episode 11, How Not To Be Seen
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Impugning Patriotism
There's a lot of debate on the MoveOn ad on General Petraeus's testimony. For the record I think calling him Betray Us is a bit of a lazy slam that isn't likely to win anybody over. Anyway Glenn Greenwald had some great remarks responding to this.
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