[kj] OT: "Punk" band Yellowcard to tour Mid-East as part of USO"support the troops" campaign

[iPat]

it was more a dig at the popular propaganda of Brits defending our
shores than having a go at the troops. I knew many people who went to
that encounter. But they chose to sign up and Nuremburg told us that
its not acceptable to simply accept orders! didnt it?

To say people chose to sign up is naiive as well as poverty doesnt
necessarily let you see the choices.

On Jan 9, 2008 4:20 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Maybe I shouldn't have got the pot stirring so early this morning (in

> the US).

>

> I just read George Berger's excellent (but sorrily out of print) Story

> of Crass, an Xmas gift from my gf, and reading it has definitely

> re-emboldened my thinking on this kind of stuff. Their "Sheep Farming in

> the Falklands" single was essentially a dig at Brit troops that

> participated in the Falklands invasion -- and about 1,100 of them died

> "defending" that lump of rock. For the US, Afghanistan is one thing,

> Iraq is another.

>

> The idea in the US that people "have to go into the Army to go to

> college," etc,

-- 
iPat
in Brazil