OK, I know I've been focusing a whole heck of a lot on Cindy Sheehan's mission in Crawford, Texas. And I know that there are a whole lot more human rights/social justice issues going on in the world, and so I usually try to mix it up pretty well.
But please indulge me for this:
1. Read this column by Marjorie Cohn about Cindy Sheehan, et al: The Murder of Casey Sheehan
2. Then, depending on your own personal leanings, do one of the following:
2a. If you support Cindy, visit the Gold Star Families for Peace site to see how you can help.
2b. If you think that Cindy is an ignorant and/or misguided tool of Michael Moore and/or the radical whatever, then please demonstrate your support for the war in Iraq by enlisting in the military (if you are under the age of 35), or enlisting one or more of your children (if you are too old to enlist yourself).
So there you go. It's black or white. You're with us or you're against us. No lame-ass wussy excuses accepted.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
If you were half as smart as you pretend to be, you'd know it is illegal to "enlist your children." That's just a pathetic little game that Moore devised to try to make people answer a "So have you stopepd beating yoru wife" question.
ReplyDeleteIT'S A VOLUNTEER MILITARY.
The cluephone, she rings for thee.
Hey jimk:
ReplyDeleteApparently you disagree with Mary but you cannot argue the issue on its own merits, so you pick on a word choice and call her clueless.
Your approach seems pathetically desperate, and I am sorry about the self-esteem issues that you apparently have, but I will play your little word game with you.
From Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: en·list
Pronunciation: in-'list, en-
Function: verb
transitive senses
1 a : to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest (enlist all the available resources) (enlist the community in an experiment) b : to win over : ATTRACT (trying to enlist my sympathies)
2 : to engage (a person) for duty in the armed forces
intransitive senses
1 : to enroll oneself in the armed forces
2 : to participate heartily (as in a cause, drive, or crusade)
So..................
While one may not actively sign up one's child for the military without that child's own willingness (and signature), enlisting the child's support and hearty participation is something that a parent can certainly do. Now will you, big boy?
Or is your semantic quibbling your own lame-ass wussy excuse (as Mary so eloquently put it) for letting OTHER people's kids get killed while you sit on your ass and point fingers at those who care, because it makes you feel superior?