The Problem with "Support the Troops"

Sarah Hunter
Series Number: 
62
Militarism and National Security

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT. Contact us if you would like a free hard copy mailed. Editors' Note: In this latest DifferenTakes anti-war activist Sarah Hunter raises critical questions about the slogan, “Support the troops; bring them home!” This issue is particularly pressing as the Obama administration considers expanding troop deployments in Afghanistan.Co-editors Elizabeth Barajas-Román & Betsy Hartmann

Sarah Hunter is a recent graduate of Hampshire College. Her Division III project, “War and Peace in the Pioneer Valley”, is a series of ethnographic essays about the anti-war movement in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. This essay is excerpted from one of these chapters.