Chris Hayes said something that will get the wingers all riled up:
“I feel… uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers, and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that.”In the context of a botched war in Afghanistan and an immoral one in Iraq, Hayes is justified in being just a bit sick of the incessant military worship by conservatives in America, often used to bash liberals for not being patriotic. Last night, Billy Cunningham got in the 1st licks on Hayes and I suspect because Drudge and other wackos picked up on the story, we'll be hearing more about this in the next few days.
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There have been "heroic" acts
if by heroic one means brave,in both Iraq and Afghanistan by US troops (and by the resistance) but there have been no heroic acts in either war which have done one thing to protect our freedoms or standard of living here.
And the regular praise does maintain an unhealthy state of warlike pride. Which even plays a part in boosting Obama's immoral droning.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/05/obama-killer-by-drones-has-no-principles.html
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/05/29/heroes-and-villains/
Raimondo elaborates and pulls no punches.
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