>I believe Carrol's analysis is accurate. The soldiers' revolt did much more
>to end the Vietnam war than the "vocal opposition" of the anti-war movement,
>which was effective primarily to the extent that it helped radicalize the
>G.I.s.
How can you separate all these things? The antiwar movement was inseparable from the "counterculture" - which I suppose is suspect by hardcore politicos because it involved what Judith Butler calls the "merely cultural" - and those were inseparable from the GI's rebellion. It was mass social indiscipline and it scared the hell out of conservatives, from Spiro Agnew to Irving Howe.
Doug