B-52 Bombers, a Long Time Ago.... Re: Hitch loves you

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Couldn't agree more with Nathan --
>
>>  I think the mindless sloganeering
>>  sustituting for concrete analysis of the present sitution after S11 was one
>>  of the most depressing things I have experienced in years.  We lost the
>>  debate on the war and even more on the peace, because the public analysis of
>>  the "peace movement" was so disconnected from the reality experienced by the
>>  general population that they tuned it out.   The media may have contributed
>>  with their press blackouts, but that was true in many past peace movements
>  > and the message got out on the streets.
>
>Just as well that so disconnected and vacuous a message didn't get out.
>The concept of "cultural lag" was invented to account for much what the
>peacenik left has tried to present as "thought." Vietnam was a long time
>ago.
>
>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Perhaps, you two want to write a letter to the US President, urging 
him to retire, pronto, B-52 bombers and the like that remind 
"peaceniks" (now there is a dated word!) of Vietnam, the Gulf War, 
Kosovo, and other things that happened a long time ago: 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1632000/1632521.stm>.
-- 
Yoshie

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