Bill Domhoff @ UCSC invited John Judis, a UCSC alum, to speak in '83. A fellow joint DSOC and NAM member asked what he would change in DSOC positions or strategy. "Drop the opposition to the draft." On shared sacrifice/comunitarian bases. And that dissent from imperial adventures are heightened when the middle and upper class can fear their kids comung back in body bags.
From Michael Lind review in the New Statesman, issue dated 31 May, of Rightist Empire lover, Niall Ferguson, "Colossus: The Rise and the Fall of the American Empire."
Lind, "But, he goes still further, suggesting that US prisons be emptied to supply cannon fodder for the neo-British Empire he proposes:
If one adds together the illegal immigrants, the jobless and the convicts, there is surely ample raw material fo a larger American Army...One of the mainsprings of British colonisation was the policy of transportation that emptied the prison hulks of 18th-century England into ships bound for Australia.
Lind remarks, "Who forms the audience for this evil nonsense?"
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