On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:51 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> It's worth remembering, too -- over against the myth of "college
> radicals" and the Vietnam war -- that in the 1960s support for the US
> government's war against Vietnam was directly (not inversely)
> proportional to years of formal education. I.e., American
> education was
> doing its job: the more of it you had, the more likely you were to
> support what Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon were doing to SE Asia. Mutatis
> mutandis, that's probably even more so today. --CGE
But if education is a marker of class, which it is to some degree, then it makes sense that those with more of a class interest in imperial war would support it, no?
Doug