I’m sure this is meant to be funny. Or, at least, I hope it is — still, it misses so many points as to be laughable, and not in the way I suspect the author intended. He trots out the tired old “if you’re against the war, you must have forgotten about 9/11!” cannard, and populates his arguments with so many straw men as to constitute a fire hazard. The columnist didn’t write this “memo,” and tells us so in his closing lines: “I did not author the Peace Activist Etiquette memo, but I sincerely thank whoever did. This aside: Four members of my family are serving in this war. Don’t tell any of them it’s the ‘American way’ to insult your flag or country.”

Yes, that’s right: protesting a war is now “insulting” to our flag and our country. Again, could you possibly miss the point more?