2/18/2004: Iraqi artist creates statue of US GI

[Happy Monkey]

There are a few people who think that the soldiers should refuse to serve if a war is unjustified. While there is an abstract attractiveness to that idea, I don't think it is a good idea in practice, and I certainly wouldn't hold any soldiers to it.

But the "you don't support the troops" thing is just a vicious rhetorical attack, designed to derail the opposing argument, forcing them to explain the fallacy. Time thus spent is time not spent making a real argument, and doesn't have the soundbite quality of the accusation.