So Much Rhetoric, So Little Action

Watching Memorial Day coverage, I don't know how this country keeps a straight face. So much rhetoric, so little action. So much about past wars, so little about doing something for the soldiers suffering right now in this one in Iraq/Afghanistan.

If we all do "support the troops", how come there has not been a demonstration, a march on Washington to DEMAND that they get the armor they've been fiending for for so long? Or that we end the Stop-Loss programs or the other Enron accounting tricks that keep enough soldiers over there? In my lifetime, I've seen a lot of demonstrations with crowds in the hundreds of thousands, many on the mall in Washington - marches for civil rights, for earth day, no nukes, pro-life, pro-choice, mothers against guns, the million man march -

But nobody's out there chanting "What do we want" 'Armor!' "When do we want it?" 'NOW!'

How "supported" can the troops feel if people back home won't be the voice putting pressure on the government for them? - something they surely can't do for themselves given where they are.