Of course, if you believe my conservative military friends, there are "state secrets" civilians just don't know. Things that, if the American people did know them, it would blow our little minds!!! And that is why we had to go to war, Steph. Someday, it'll all come out in the open and YOU'LL UNDERSTAND.
I may be remembering things wrong, but I think my brother has actually used a similar argument to justify his support of Operation Iraqi LiberationIraqi Freedom Enduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You II: Electrocuted Balls-galoo.
That's like the Santa Claus of war arguments. And it doesn't fly in a democracy.
Or even in a democratic republic. As Long Tom said, if the people are un-informed, the solution is to inform them, not to take power away from them.
(And you have nothing to apologize for. Despite the phrasing of this icon's keywords, you're not one've the dogfuckers in question. They're the ones need to apologize.)
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Date: 2005-12-10 08:46 pm (UTC)I may be remembering things wrong, but I think my brother has actually used a similar argument to justify his support of Operation
Iraqi LiberationIraqi FreedomEnduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You II: Electrocuted Balls-galoo.That's like the Santa Claus of war arguments. And it doesn't fly in a democracy.
Or even in a democratic republic. As Long Tom said, if the people are un-informed, the solution is to inform them, not to take power away from them.
(And you have nothing to apologize for. Despite the phrasing of this icon's keywords, you're not one've the dogfuckers in question. They're the ones need to apologize.)