The weakness of the anti-war movement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 19 09:29:33 PDT 1999


Chris Burford wrote:


>Yes, we are coming down to subtleties of emphasis, but fundamentally I
>would challenge good people by suggesting that the weakness of the anti-war
>movement is because its basic line has been wrong.

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but it seems to me that most Americans don't care too much if their military is bombing other countries as long as no Americans get killed, or are at risk of getting killed. No draft, no antiwar movement. Am I being too cynical?

Doug



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