"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
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> mbs: without doubt, the military mission was going to happen.
> What might have gone differently is that the peace movement
> might have made a more credible case and become better positioned
> to affect future, less plausible interventions.
History does not particularly repeat itself, either as tragedy or farce. Too many people have been dreaming of a repetition of the anti-war movement of the '60s. If it happens, the new will relate to the old only at so high a level of abstraction as to conceal the resemblance except to analysis after the fact. The Gulf War ended so quickly that few or no new political relationships emerged from it. Already this war has generated a whole web of new relations, and has involved a rather large number of people who had had no prior political involvement. What more could one have expected?
As to "less plausible interventions," if either Yugoslavia or Afghanistan were seemed plausible, then _any_ intervention in the future will be equally plausible.
Carrol