Supporting Our Troops

What’s with all the turncoats?

Poll after poll shows sup­port for war on the increase, because sup­port for ‘our’ brave boys in the Gulf kicks in the minute bombs start rain­ing down on Iraq.

I just don’t get it. Obvi­ously, I don’t want anyone to die because of this oil-​grab, but the argu­ment that the war is ille­gal, morally rep­re­hen­si­ble and liable to have dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the Middle East and the world at large is not negated by the fact that some people who happen to come from the same coun­try as me might get killed. If any­thing, the onset of war bol­sters argu­ments against war: sup­port your sol­diers by demand­ing their imme­di­ate withdrawal.

Posted at 12pm on 25/03/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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