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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