An absolutely brilliant post from Digby about right wing blogs and the war

I hear so much from the right about how they love the troops. But they don't seem to love the actual human beings who wear the uniform, they love those little GI Joe dolls they played with as children which they could dress up in little costumes and contort into pretzels for their fun and amusement. If they loved the actual troops they wouldn't require them to be like two dimensional John Waynes, withholding their real experiences and feelings for fear that a virtual armchair lynch mob would come after them.

Thank God Joseph Heller and James Jones and Erich Maria Remarque and countless others aren't trying to write their books today. They'd be burned as heretics by a bunch of nasty boys and girls who have fetishized "the troops" into a strange form of Boy Band eroticism --- that empty, nonthreatening form of masculinity the tweens use to bridge the scary gap between puberty and adolescence. Private Peter Pan reporting for duty.

The real men for them are the civilians on 24 torturing suspected terrorists for an hour each week, keeping the lil'est tough guys safe from harm with hard sadism and easy answers. That's where this wingnut war is really being fought. With popcorn.


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/private-peter-pan-by-digby-other-day-i.html

What is WRONG with these people? The more obvious it bocomes that this war is a disaster, the nastier they get. I'm beginning to think the right wing bloggers are suffering from PTSD as a result of having been proven wrong.

Peter Pans indeed.

spread by casual contact with ignorant motherfuckers, some signs, repeating everything you hear on right wing radio and faux news; never serving in the military and pretending to be very rough and tough (this always occurs when they are in large groups.) Proud of ignorance. Thinks being a lemming is patriotic. Fortunately (or not) very little brain damage is done by this condition (to those who have it.)

actually torture another human being?

Sure, they won't join the military, but I'd put good money that they'd just love to put on a blackshirt and take orderz.

Sure a conservative chickenshit chickenhawk would torture a non white, non christian if that person were secured and could not fight back. If the run of the mill cowardly bush supporter who has never served in the military were put in combat situation they would develop the most godawful (get me the fuck out of here) case of PTSD imaginable. To be a bush supporter is to be a coward and there is nothing patriotic about being a coward.

enough said