it's not enough that they have to fight these chickenhawks' wars, they also have to star in their propaganda. I wonder if any of these Marines gave Brooks their permission to imply an endorsement of hawkish politicians and to use them to bash Europe?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/opinion/15brooks.html?
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A bunch of us were milling about in the airport bar, holding little Irish coffees, when hundreds of marines started flooding into the terminal. This was their first chance at a beer after eight months of mayhem in the Sunni Triangle. They streamed in looking thick-necked and strong, but they also had wide-eyed, tentative expressions on their faces, like people trying to reacclimate to the manners of normal life.
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told a bunch of them some senators were on the other side of the bar if they wanted to shake hands. One of them was blasôUbut the rest were pleased to go over - especially when they saw John McCain and Joe Lieberman. These were not guys grown cynical about their political leaders.
I tried to think of the Munich conference from their perspective. If those marines had had the stomach to sit through all those panel discussions, would they have thought that the political class was playing games at luxury hotels, or that the politicians were doing something useful to make the most of those 22 Marine deaths?
The first thing I'd tell these marines is that when these politicians went abroad to represent the U.S., they didn't take their squabbles with them. There were Democrats and Republicans in this delegation, but you couldn't tell who was who by listening to their speeches.
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