"Civil Society"

Dhlazare Dhlazare at aol.com
Wed May 13 08:52:02 PDT 1998


Louis Proyect writes: << Fred [Halstead]'s

major contribution to the antiwar movement was to make the point that

American GI's were working-class victims of imperialism, and not killers.

This meant that the antiwar movement eschewed Spart slogans like "Drive the

GI's into the Sea!" Eventually this strategy paid off as thousands of

active-duty GI's, including many in Indochina itself, began to protest the

war.

Wrong. The real tragedy was that American GI's were BOTH victims AND killers. And while it was very nice that thousands of active-duty GI's "began" to protest the war, the war was not concluded until the last remnants of US advisers were, so to speak, driven into the sea.

Dan Lazare

Louis Proyect

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