Support Our Troops - Criticism and Opponents

Criticism and Opponents

Political analyst Noam Chomsky has criticized the slogan, saying,

the point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.