"Support the Troops" bumper stickers. Tricky words. You're made appear unsupportive of "The Troops" with the order to support. At this point you might feel a bit in debt to the rest of the sentence, which was purposefully left vague and presented as a group of human beings in need of support to possibly excite your feelings of caring, compasion and even pressing the "family buttons" in your head a bit. "Troops" also carries with it a power positive connotation. "With the loss of her job, house, and dearest friend; Stella remains with her feet firm on the ground. She's such a trooper". An admirable human virtue, that of the lone soul standing up to the tempests of the god's. You think about it for a second and images of young men and women at the prime of their life flash through. "The Troops" are the people you went to high school with, brothers and sisters, first-time parents. They're "good" people, and they need your "support". Or else why would there be a bumper sticker you ask.

The sticker asks you to start supporting a group of human being with that highly esteemed trooper virtue. And you agree.. But, why support only the troops of ones nation? Aren't they all Troops? If you really supported the troops then you would not support war. "The Troops" and "The Military" are NOT the same thing. The military is a system. An ideology. It is nonhuman and it benefits, monetarily, a select few. It does so with a large cost of life and suffering.