It turns out that the bulk of \u201canti-war\u201d activists were really just trendy anti-Bush dilettantes who could care less about the wars they protested and who evaporated the moment Obama (another shill for statist\/corporate fusion) was elected.<\/a> <\/p>\nSome of us continue to say that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are disastrous adventures and that we need to bring our troops home, not only from combat zones, but also from the other 100 countries in which we maintain a military presence in order to maintain the Empire. But nationalism being to a nation what the sin of pride is to an individual, we stubbornly keep spending ourselves into the dirt. One of these days we will figure out (I hope) that patriotism means love of country, not love of the state or the corporation.<\/p>\n