# Why so Little Hate for the US Soldiers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 3, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-little-hate-for-the-us-soldiers/587727 "2011-07-03T16:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-little-hate-for-the-us-soldiers/587727/14 "2011-07-03T18:14:03Z")
> [@Commissar](#): > > Even people that strongly oppose the current wars of aggression will fall all over themselves to assure everyone that yes, they love and support the troops, thank you for your service, come home safe, and so on and so forth, ad nauseum. That’s not the problem. The problems are: a) that fulsome praise is too often the ONLY thing politicians give to the troops. When it comes to veterans’ benefits, they don’t put their money where their mouth is. b) too many politicians, especially Republicans, confuse “support the troops” with “any defense cuts are treasonous.” They prate about the debt crisis, but spend all their time trying to cut a million here and a million there from job training or health care or family planning services, while they could cut tens of billions from the Pentagon, and the US would still spend more on its armed forces than any other country, by far. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-so-little-hate-for-the-us-soldiers/587727)._