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Old 03-03-2004, 12:23 PM   #41
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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There are a few people who think that the soldiers should refuse to serve if a war is unjustified. While there is an abstract attractiveness to that idea, I don't think it is a good idea in practice, and I certainly wouldn't hold any soldiers to it.

But the "you don't support the troops" thing is just a vicious rhetorical attack, designed to derail the opposing argument, forcing them to explain the fallacy. Time thus spent is time not spent making a real argument, and doesn't have the soundbite quality of the accusation.
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