S’cuse me, did someone say antipatriotic?

In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of “supporting the troops,” but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime. Many who oppose the Bush regime wars also say they “support the troops.” Let me say it straight out—I do not support the troops and neither should you. It is objectively impossible to support the troops of the imperialist military forces of the U.S. and at the same time oppose the wars in which they fight.

The truth, at last. Which ought to put to bed once and for all any Lefty attempt to cloak their anti-Americanism in the fog of their dishonest, Orwellian subterfuge of “support” for our troops.

The United States has over 700 military bases or sites located in over 130 foreign countries. The hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in these countries are not there to preserve or foster freedom and democracy as the Bush regime would like to claim, but to maintain U.S. imperialist domination of the world. The United States now spends more on its military than all the other nations of the world combined.

And in none of those countries do we take an active hand in their actual governance, with the partial exception of Iraq. Which running of things is, y’know, the very damned definition of “imperialism,” along with outright theft of the resources, such as oil, that we are content to purchase at market prices instead. We’re involved in aiding with the security of those places either at their own specific request or by UN mandate, and when asked to leave, we leave — see “Philippines, The” for a little direly-needed schooling on this.

Now get busy redefining “imperialism” to suit your idiotic premise, whydon’tcha. We all know it’s coming; goalposts on wheels has long been the unscrupulous MO of collectivists like this nimrod from Milan to Minsk to Michigan, and some things never change — the predictability and vapid illogic of Lefty argumentation being foremost among ‘em.

As for military expenditures, in the first place, it’s not at all likely that anyone really knows the extent of military expenditures in closed societies like China or Russia — or, realistically, anywhere else, up to and including the US, for that matter. In the second, wouldn’t it be better to compare presumed expenditures as a percentage of GDP rather than just noting raw spending numbers?

No matter on that one, really; I’m sure he’s perfectly correct. And so friggin’ what? Is that something any truly patriotic American ought to be ashamed of? Only a soldier-hating, fearmongering Lefty could possibly be alarmed and discomfited by the very idea that America remains the strongest nation in the world, and as such relatively secure.

Come to think of it, “antipatriotic” might not be a strong enough epithet for these swine.

We need to oppose the recruitment of men and women into the military. We need to support resisters within the military who have realized what they are doing and now choose to resist the role of the U.S. military.

All good Leftists need to support sedition, mutiny, and treason. Gotcha. Just remember down the line that you said it, when some of us occasionally point that telling fact out. No more howling about anyone “questioning your patriotism” — you have none. Some of you cynical, disingenuous moonbats really ought to try to remember that it can be dangerous to try to wrap yourself in a flag you’ve already set the match to — publicly and unashamedly. A pyromaniac, after all, has no right to get upset when attention is called to just who started the conflagration in the first place.

We need to expose that those in the U.S. military are trained to be part of a “killing machine.” While not every member of the military is an individual murderer, they are all part of a system that commits war crimes, including aggressive wars, massacres, rape, and other crimes against humanity, all in the service of U.S. imperialism. The bottom line is that even if these people are relatives or friends, you can not support the troops without also supporting the objective role that these troops play in the imperialist system.

And there you have it: for America-hating Leftists like this weevil, Ideology Trumps All — even family ties and friendship. How perfectly typical of the collectivist mindset.

In 1933 Marine Major General Smedley Butler clarified the role of the U.S. military. He stated, “War is just a racket…It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses…I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps…In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…”

And right there, I think we’ve uncovered what this treasonous filthbag really opposes. Hey, how are we ever going to realize the liberal/Left utopian dream of World Socialism when the ongoing success of dirty, mean old free-market capitalism keeps undercutting our specious, dishonest arguments?

In the words of another, long-defunct socialist dictatorship: Arbeit macht frei!

And once more it’s shown beyond contradiction that all any of us has to do to discredit these unctuous totalitarian assholes is quote them accurately and tell the truth about them.