Lace-Thong-Wearing, Shaved-Pussy Boston Globe Columnist “Doesn’t Support The Troops”
I’d like to say I am amazed at the lengths these self-gratifying contortionists with computers and newspaper paychecks and/or blogs go to in order to have an audience to their episodes of public one-on-one-OF-one fellatio … But after nearly eight years … if you’ve seen one “worst political porn movie ever made” … you’ve seen them all.
BTW … I know “our guys” in uniform have a name for guys that fuck their girls while they are deployed … “Jodies” … Right?
We really DO need a name for the guys that fuck themselves on the pages of newspapers or in the blog-o-sphere while bemoaning the troops as stupid idiots, murderers, or fools while they’re deployed … simply because they don’t have even enough balls to be “Jodies”.
Penis envy can be a very ugly thang … especially when done in the public eye.
Supporting our troops
By Steve Almond - (Boston Globe)
PERHAPS the most insidious byproduct of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been a reflexive sanctification of the military. To put this in bumper stickerese: Support the Troops.
Well, I have an ugly confession to make: I don’t support the troops - at least not unconditionally. When somebody tells me they serve in the military, my first impulse isn’t to say, “Thank you for your service!” like those insufferable chickenhawks on talk radio.
My first impulse is to say, “I’m sorry to hear that.” Because I am. I’m sorry to know that the person I’m talking to might someday be maimed or killed on the job, or might someday kill someone else. Or refuel a plane that drops bombs on buildings.
I can’t see how anyone who calls himself or herself Christian - or human, for that matter - wouldn’t be sorry.
The fact that we have an army, that we need an army, is inherently tragic. It’s an admission that our species is still ruled by fear and aggression.
There are, of course, plenty of laudable functions that soldiers serve. But their sworn duty is to wage war. They may perform this duty with courage. They may feel great love for their country. But we don’t pay them simply for their patriotism or integrity. We also pay them to kill people.
And here it’s worth making a point often overlooked. Anyone who pays taxes in this country “supports the troops.” We’re the ones who subsidize their training and equipment and medical care and education.
I’m happy to do so, as long as I believe those soldiers are being deployed on a mission that feels morally necessary - targeting terrorists who seek to kill civilians, for instance, or trying to prevent a genocide.
The problem with the knee-jerk militarism of the past several years is that it has led to an absence of financial and moral oversight that is fundamentally undemocratic. Our troops have become human shields for war criminals and profiteers.
Consider the $1.39 billion contract awarded in 2003 to a subsidiary of Halliburton. The reconstruction project was secretly bid - to one company. There was much tough talk in Congress about preventing such sweetheart deals. But five years later, the US government continues to pay vast sums of our money to firms with ties to the administration.
In 2005, we learned that $9 billion allocated for reconstruction projects had been lost. With the US economy slumping, fighting this kind of flagrant graft and mismanagement shouldn’t be politically risky. But then, anyone who cries foul runs the risk of being accused of . . . not supporting the troops.
No surprise. After all, this was the rallying cry used to silence dissent when the core rationale for invading Iraq evaporated. And it’s still being used to justify the occupation.
It remains unthinkable for a politician (or public official of any sort) to say aloud that our troops sometimes commit atrocities, that they are not all worthy of support, that some of them - faced with a terrifying and ethically incoherent mission - are driven to savagery. This grim duty has been left to the soldiers themselves.
Americans have often looked to heroic violence as a means of spiritual regeneration. Our most powerful national myth is the notion that anyone fighting on our behalf is a hero. I understand why friends and families of our soldiers feel this way. But for the rest of us, too often “supporting the troops” isn’t about the troops at all. It’s about the childish desire to feel morally exempt from the violence carried out in our names.
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Lez call ‘em “Medeas” (as in Medea Benjamin). I for one find that one of the worst names, to begin with.
My idea for what to do with all these anti-military types: Suit them up in full battle fatigues, but with no armor, nor real weapons (only fake ones). When we take out Iran, send them in with pickups that resemble our normal assault vehicles. When the Iranians wipe them all out, thinking they defeated the “Great Satan”…Send in the real force, and cut through the Iranians like a hot knife through butter, while they’re caught off-guard.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pmPretty sure my “sworn” duty is to protect and defend the constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foriegn and domestic. Pretty sure none of the multiple enlistment oaths I have taken over 18 years swears me to wage war.
As for Steve Almond may you sleep soundly tonight knowing that rough men stand ready to visit violence upon those that would do our country harm.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pmIt’s a good thing we have people who can write op-ed pieces of shit like this, and still be walking around alive.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pmHooray for the 1st amendment, otherwise he’d look awful funny eating-corn-on-the-cob WITHOUT ANY FUCKIN TEETH!
We are suppose to be respectful here, but Steve Almond deserves no respect.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pmSir, that was a mighty big can whoop-ass you opened on the poor columnist. My congratulations on a beautiful take-down.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:07 pmHey, baby!
ONLY a woman can open that kind of whoop-ass on that kind of prick … LMAO!!
Welcome to Dollard Nation Babalu!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pmThis is what the destructive left really believes. They must be beaten for the sake of the country.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pmWho does this person think gives her the freedom to write what she does? sheesh
September 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pmWhen somebody tells me they are a reporter, my first impulse isn’t to say, “Thank you for your show/article/blog!” like those insufferable blowhards on t.v.
My first impulse is to say, “I’m sorry to hear that.” Because I am. I’m sorry to know that the person I’m talking to might someday lie, overlook the truth,or might someday try to infulence an election. Or help elect another pos liberal that will weaken our country.
Blah, blah, blah. Luckily for this pillow biter, REAL men and women have taken up the defense of this great country.
You don’t like this country, move! I’ve heard Cuba is nice this time of year.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pmAnother Obama supporter. What’s new.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmwhat a douchebag. and yeah i know, personal attacks are no real way to take someone on. but this person deserves no real thoughts from anyone. afterall, the media has become the enemy to us REAL Americans
September 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pmnaive, ignorant, hateful, stupid, shallow stain
I am no longer outraged by these shit bags, they just continue to reinforce my beliefs.
us and them.
It’s target rich enviroment folks!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pmHey Steve, I have your respect and it’s between my legs. Suck on it asshole.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pmyou are right on Steve. folks like this are just plain ignorant.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
cckezel, dude, thought that was fired off at me….I’m full of rum and in a shit mood anyway and that lit me up….I’ll calm down now… but I went to your link to try and find out where you be..
September 18th, 2008 at 5:51 pmSo, does this mean we don’t get to see the dummy get a brazilian wax?
Thanks to all you men and women who serve in our military. You’ve got guts and strength and you’ve chosen a path that is unselfish.
People like this guy doesn’t understand you because he doesn’t have guts. He’s suicidal. Why else would you be willing to not fund a military knowing that there are others out there who are building their militaries and arsenals? Suicidal. Idiotic.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pmUnbeleivable, this person needs to live under tyranny in a dictatorship with no rights or liberty and maybe then they will change their mind. This is so unbeleivebly ignorrant, I am almost at a loss for words.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:34 pmBlah, blah, blah, I don’t support the troops, blah, blah, unchristian and inhumane, blah, blah, knee-jerk militarism, blah, blah, war criminals and profiteers, blah, blah, Halliburton, blah, blah, sweetheart deals, blah, blah, the occupation, blah, blah, atrocities and savagery, blah, blah, violence carried out in our names…. now, where have I heard that tune before
Just the same old leftist anti-war crap being regurgitated again 
Find a new song Almond, the record must be stuck 
September 18th, 2008 at 7:54 pmGeez, Almond–where to begin.
I have a “support the troops” bumper-sticker on both vehicles and on a flag flying beneath the American flag in my front yard, I give money to wounded warrior projects and to the troops in theater. No Almond, it’s not a childish desire to feel morally exempt. As a Christian I know NONE of us are exempt, but we ALL will kneel before God and give account-you too Almond.
Actually, my support, my awe of our warriors is based in something far greater than myself (stay with me Almond, I know that is a rough concept for liberals). My deepest respect and gratitude for our warriors is based on the fact that they are willing to look violence and evil in the eye and not turn their back to it but deal with it decisively to make the country they love safer. This act of service to something greater than self (of Country, of freedom, of their buddy) inspires my deepest admiration.
See Almond, as a Christian I do believe in evil and that is what separates me from you. While you wring your hands that an army is an “admission of fear”, I do not pretend to live in a utopian world. I am commanded by my Lord to be watchful because the “evil one” prowls like a lion looking for someone to destroy. So you see, evil cannot be reasoned with. It requires the courageous acts of brave men and women to destroy it. The bible is full of examples, you ought to try reading it sometime Almond.
What greater love is this, that a man would lay down his life for my freedom? That is worthy of my respect, my admiration, my awe, and yes, my support.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:37 pm