USA, USA, USA
November 2, 2012
Romney gave a speech a day or so ago and some guy stood up and shouted something about climate change causing the recent hurricane. I think he is wrong, of course, but he was shouted down with chants of USA, USA, USA. This chant is used by conservatives to cover a multitude of their sins, but I guess it does double duty.
http://youtu.be/afjX9TlkODw
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.
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