thank you, Joel Stein

I want to go on the record for saying that this article http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein24jan24,0,4137172.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions by Joel Stein, which smacks of desperately wanting to get some attention, any attention, gets my full support. I am sick of people who think that our troops are either braindead children or testosterone filled baby killers saying through clenched teeth that they support our troops. It is political expedience and pandering at its worse. It results in Hillary's hilarious attempts to sound like a hawk over such non-issues as the body armor incident.
If you don't support the troops and what they do, say so and let us decide in the ballot box. And the old trope that "I support the troops, I want to bring them home" is enormously childlish. They consciously and intentionally put themselves in harm's way for the protection of society, so that society itself does not have to endure the hardships soldiers willfully take upon themselves. I would love to have all of the troops home forever, but reality dictates that they need be out in the world fighting and dying. It's a horrible fact, but soldiers enter into their service with their eyes wide-open.
There are many aspects of this war with which I don't agree, but the troops need to be allowed to finish their mission. Many more will die, but at least Joel Stein has made it clear who honors their death and who does not.