The Huffington Post reports:
[Connecticut Representative Chris] Murphy also revealed a comment made to him by one of the Republican lawmakers on the trip, who admitted that there is pressure to publicly avoid any criticism of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan so as not to appear unpatriotic.
…According to Murphy, this Republican lawmaker said that “even if he opposed the war, it wasn’t right for him to openly talk about that, [and] if you criticize the war, that you’re putting troops in jeopardy.”
Voters expect informed, sober analysis on the nation’s greatest problems from these people and instead they make policies based on conformity and groupthink. That someone would personally oppose the war, yet continue to conform and support this deadly endeavor should make any voter cringe.
Samuel Johnson was right in 1774: patriotism is “the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Yet another spin on the old bulls*** "support the troops".
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