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It seems a few lefty types thought they'd struck upon a fine idea: create a blog, then email a bunch of center/right bloggers to attempt to bring the crowds to their site. I especially enjoyed this post there:
Vehicles in New Jersey are covered with decals representing little ribbons inscribed with the legend: ?Support Our Troops.? I have done a lot of driving recently and have noticed geographical disparities in the distribution of these symbols. There are fewer in the Midwest and very few at all in the LA area. They are also disproportionately displayed on SUVs and vans, which isn?t surprising given that the owners are disproportionately reliant on the oil supplies that our soldiers are in Iraq to protect (among their other purposes).What is it exactly that these decals exhort us to do? How can I, or anyone, support the troops themselves? What can we possibly do for them? It seems that the message is really an exhortation to support the war.
...since it sums up so nicely the vacant American Left position on virtually everything. "I'm not aware of something, therefore it doesn't exist. Discovery is beyond my capability."
Of course, the authors solicited links, as I said, so there is a small possibility that the post reflects nothing of the author's mindset and is merely designed to draw comments. If so it did quite well, with over 100 as of now, including an early one that's a fine take down from Joe Katzman of Winds of Change, who saved me much effort.
Joe's comment begins "Hmm. Just got an email from Left2Right" and goes on to exceed the quality of anything else written on the site. (Except maybe the Dean Esmay comment a little further down) But those so inclined can read the original post and all the comments for some insight to the current mind of the left regarding "support the troops".
It all just brings to mind the lack of lefty support for anysoldier.com, in spite of Michael Moore encouragement that I documented here, or the complete absence of lefty blogs from any of the SoA challenge teams or individuals found here. (To be clear, SoA, of course, helps in the rebuilding of Iraq - so I suppose lefty support of that effort is out of the question too.)
Read as much of the whole thing as you can stand.
I expect these same folks might drop a few spare quarters into the hat for Jeremy Hinzman, but When it comes to "support" from the left, as with so many other things, the lights are on but nobody's home.
