Who else is sick of the Football analogies in regard to the 'war'? [View All]

[Philosoraptor]

Republicans are always using football terms when speaking of their beloved wars, 'go long, go deep', 'don't turn tail in the fourth quarter', 'level the playing field', 'do you want to have an away game or a home game'?, 'support the troops', etc., they've been doing this from the very beginning and it gets more offensive to me every day.

dick cheney yesterday: "It's game time".

republicans use these football and baseball terms constantly, and I do believe that they actually think of the whole horror AS A BLOODY FOOTBALL GAME, to be 'won', or 'lost', to leave Iraq would be 'defeat', or 'surrender' even, come on already.

'Victory' is employed an awful lot, and 'winning', as in we are winning the war/game.

I guess in the old days people saw it as a giant chess board, a king, a queen, knights, bishops and above all, pawns. Our soldiers, on the ground, are the living pawns, dying to protect their king and his many bishops and rooks.

But football is more modern and hip, men go orgasmic at super bowl time, they place billions on bets, and they too win and lose, they get depressed when their team 'loses the game', and they scream like crazy when one of their team scores a touchdown.

So now they see this so called war as a literal game, and they see the people who are dying as scores, and the soldiers are handicapped, and the nameless, faceless innocent Iraqis are the away team, and the American people are the home team, and numbers are crunched, statistics are collected, plays are called, referees scream at team owners, coaches scream at referees, hot dogs are sold, beer flows like a river, like the blood.

It's Rome all over again, the crowd screams for entertainment and satisfaction, the gladiators and the lions and the victims get tortured and bleed and fight and die and the high brows sit in the best seats and hold a thumb up or down and it's all a huge, bloody game. We sit in the cheap seats and scream.