David Masciotra writes at Salon: Our troops dont protect our freedom The troops are heroes boosters of American life toss out clichés to defend their generalization – They defend our freedom, They fight so we don’t have to. No American freedom is currently at stake in Afghanistan. It is impossible to imagine an argument to the contrary, just as the war in Iraq was clearly fought for the interests of empire, the profits of defense contractors, and the edification of neoconservative theorists. It had nothing to do with the safety or freedom of the American people. The last time the U.S. military deployed to fight for the protection of American life was in World War II – an inconvenient fact that reduces clichés about “thanking a soldier” for free speech to rubble. If a soldier deserves gratitude, so does the litigator who argued key First Amendment cases in court, the legislators who voted for the protection of free speech, and thousands of external agitators who rallied for more speech rights, less censorship and broader access to media. More: tinyurl/l5drrtw .
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:28:41 +0000
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