Supporting the troops...

A recent column by Joel Stein is likely generating major ripples across the dial as the talk-radio shephards turn their venom on the newest critic of Bush's failed war.

His column begins as follows:

I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.

Free Republic is all over this guy, exhibiting their supposed Christian beliefs in the usual hypocritical fashion. (Agree with us, and we'll pray for you. Disagree with us, and we want you dead.)

Now, clearly some of Mr. Stein's column is hyperbolic rhetoric, designed to make waves by saying that which most are unwilling or politically unable. But the bottom line is that American kids are killing and dying to advance the failed policies of recent American Presidents.

Who really supports the murders of nameless, faceless people thousands of miles away who pose no threat to anyone whatsoever, except those in positions to profit from our current foreign policy?