Empire Builders
by Murray Polner

Far too many civically obedient Americans are content to express their feelings with vacuous "support our troops" stickers and continue – in Neil Postman’s famous phrase – "amusing themselves to death," numb to the miseries of the battlefield. The steady stream of government manipulation of public opinion nonetheless confounds patriotic Americans, rightly proud of our nation and its many freedoms. Is it any wonder that they respond to an endless series of manufactured "crises" given the lack of hard news in most of the media? And surrender their kids to Washington’s fantasies of imperial grandeur and endless conflicts? Can anyone name one prominent member of our cloistered Washington prowar crowd who has a child or grandson on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan today? Or ask why only one congressman has a son there?

"If any question why we died Tell them, because our fathers lied"

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