Jim Farmelant wrote:
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> If Mr. Woods had substituted "liberal" for leftist then that
> article would be pretty close to the truth.
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Indeed. At the beginning of the Anti-Vietnam War struggle, Carl Oglesby hoped that leftists and _Taft Republicans_ (overlapping but not quite the same as the old "Isolationist" position) could be united against the war. I've often thought that the second half of the 20th century might have been less bloody if Taft instead of Eisenhower had become president in 1952. Taft was a reactionary prick, but he was _not_ an imperialist.
On "squeamishness" about war. There was a hassle on this list (I believe at the time of the humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia) as to whether "pacifist" was a legitimate label for those of us opposing that bombing. (I was one of those who sharply repudiated the label for our position.)
Carrol