For Soldiers' Appetites, Reinforcements
Reg wrote:
> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > I don't think she was suggesting that we don't send moral packages.....
> > It's one way to keep them from despair. I've read some reports that
> > suicide rates among troops are unacceptably high so they need all the
> > love we can send them.
>
> Exactly. So how does "**** sending them cookies" help
> in this endeavor?
The point is Reg, sending them cookies doesn't do a hell of a lot to
help them out - as compared to stopping this ill-conceived,
ill-executed, offensive war and getting them home.
>
> > But we do need to bring them home.
>
> The one has nothing to do with the other. I worry
> when people confuse these two issues.
>
> Our troops != Our leaders
Lead us where? Hell in a handbasket? The "troups" are the biggest
group of followers there are.
-L.
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