How Patriotic Am I?
July 19, 2012
Those of us who don’t support the government’s wars and soldiers are often called unpatriotic. I keep hearing more and more talk of Syria and should the US intervene or not intervene. I am so patriotic that I don’t think anything good that would possibly happen in Syria because of US intervention is worth one drop of blood from one American soldier.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

