Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >Couldn't agree more with Nathan --
> >LARGE CLIP] 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.
Nonsense. It didn't really get out even during the Vietnam War -- the story Bruce Franklin tells of the MIA/POW mythmaking (and the dedication of his book) gives a fair idea of how successfully the minimal facts about the Vietnam War _never_ got out to a very large population. Perhaps the strongest evidence for that is the continued use even today as a hugely clever joke the term "peacenik."
> >
> >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.
In the 1930s "Progressive" was essentially defined as "an opponent of German aggression." Within the next 20 years or so it will become obvious that "progressive" now means "opponent of U.S. imperialism."
And of course the weepers and followers of Auden's Herod will continue to whine about those who won't be sensible and try to wring small favors from the murdering sobs in Washington.
Carrol
> >
> >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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