Word: patrioteer
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...ground fighting commences. No doubt, some will. But the same public opinion polls that now show war approval rates as high as 90 percent also reveal that a growing majority expects a long and hard struggle. Far from being just temporarily titilated by the precision of smart bombs and Patriot missiles, Americans appear willing to stomach the messiness inflicted by tanks and rifles...
EXPECT Republican candidates to pound their opponents for voting against popular weapons systems like the Patriot and the F-117A Stealth Fighter. To be sure, both parties deserve credit for the current military success in the Gulf. Development of the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Stealth fighter program, for example, took place during the Carter Administration...
...Iraqi Scud strike on the northern Saudi city of Hafr al-Batin was intercepted by a Patriot missile...
Those who truly love their country neither thoughtlessly leave it nor blindly agree with everything their government does, but instead make their voices heard to right the wrongs that they see. The true patriot takes the burden of expressing what (s)he thinks is best for the country, and not simply falling into the false patriotism that Emerson described as "the last refuge of a scoundrel...
...court conservatives on emotional and divisive social issues, he made no mention of abortion, flag burning or affirmative action. Nor did he raise the controversial question of military spending, except to call for shoring up a "refocused" Star Wars program in light of the successes scored by the Patriot antimissile system in the gulf. Overall military spending, however, is likely to decrease, according to the 1992 budget being submitted this week by the Pentagon, which calls for a $3.9 billion cut in projected 1992 defense outlays of $298.9 billion...