McCain's Epic Fail

[moriah]

Some may not see it this way, but I do.

I've listened to McCain's stump speeches. He has dragged the name of Matthew Stanley up in every one of them. He has allowed that poor kid's name to be sacrificed on the altar of patriotism even after he was sacrificed on the altar of a mismanaged and misinformed war.

Instead of directly addressing the "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" -- instead of taking ownership of the statement, instead of trying to defend the undependable, he instead dragged a poor dead soldier's name out as a prop.

Obama's point was about what the farking STUPID thing he said would have on other countries and their view of us, and McCain totally missed the point and talked about honoring troops and not wanting them to die "in vain". And the props that he uses, the shield he uses for his stupid statements, are bodies of our nation's dead.

So shameful.

[Berry Cool]

1. He talks about Matthew Stanley

because it's more comfortable than talking about Morgan Stanley. (Which is doing all right as of right now, but who knows what the future may hold. After all, who knew this past week would be like it was?)

[nyhuskyfan]

2. I hate the "so they don't die in vain" meme

All that leads to is a perpertual war - new soldiers get killed so the old ones didn't die in vain, then you have to stay longer so that the new soldiers who were just killed didn't die in vain.

I've always turned it around and said they died in vain if their memories are used to create more dead soldiers. Giving them more company on the memorial wall doesn't make their sacrifice more meaningful.

[moriah]

3. I have an odd view.

If we had lost just one soldier in this war and won it quickly, I would have seen it as a loss "in vain" because the war itself was a mistake.

If we had lost every soldier who participated in the Normandy landing, and lost WWII because of it, I would not have seen a single soldier's life as being lost "in vain" -- they were doing what was right.

But as Obama said, each and every soldier that has died for our country did it for us -- and therefore not a single death is truly "in vain".