The irrationality of patriotism
by Andrew Young
LewRockwell.Com
07/07/04
[W]henever we step away from patriotism and rationally analyze these arguments, they make no sense. Saying that we must stay in Iraq to preserve national credibility is saying that we should continue to waste the lives of our young people in a war that, even according to military experts, is already lost. To say that we must not allow those who have already died to have lost their lives in vain is to say that, to prevent them from having lost their lives in vain, more people should die in vain. How rational is that?...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/young-andrew1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
LewRockwell.Com
07/07/04
[W]henever we step away from patriotism and rationally analyze these arguments, they make no sense. Saying that we must stay in Iraq to preserve national credibility is saying that we should continue to waste the lives of our young people in a war that, even according to military experts, is already lost. To say that we must not allow those who have already died to have lost their lives in vain is to say that, to prevent them from having lost their lives in vain, more people should die in vain. How rational is that?...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/young-andrew1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 7. Jul, 16:26