The weakness of the anti-war movement

kelley d-m-c at worldnet.att.net
Wed May 26 10:51:36 PDT 1999


Eric the Smooth, head chef at Chez Rabble-Rouser:


>I think you can blame it--all of it, everything--on our venerable
>moderator.

to which Doug, virtuous ruler of LBO working toward his own demise ha ha ha! (gad, i slay myself toooday) replied:


>
>Yeah, guilty, though I'd like to plead innocent of the charge of being
>"venerable." Though I did tack on a timorous question mark, I still think
>there's something to this - as long as Americans aren't getting killed, the
>U.S. public's reaction to foreign military adventures is somewhere between
>mild disapproval and a yawn. Maybe I'm misjudging things, so I'll happily
>take correction.

well doug, i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were hoping for an equitable draft if'n ya get my drift. iow, were you planning on making sure that college students were drafted too? or were you just going to let that 50% of the pop. that doesn't attend college get drafted in order to fulfill their duty toward their country--that is, keeping the flame of dissent alive?

smoochy smooch, kelley



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