I appreciate what these two writers are saying, but the curmudgeon in me, begs to come out and say that the "antiwar" base of support is slowly ebbing away. Similar to '68 when antiwar sentiment became widespread, conscription propelled it along, Nixon's war dragged on and on for years. As the former U.N. weapon inspector Scott Ritter, who also has a bit of a curmudgeon in his viewpoints (i. e. the Bush administration bombing Iran before exiting office) correctly stated, "the American people don't like to lose."
It is as simple as that and with the media hoopla about the "surge working" look for less and less fever in the streets against the war. I am continually amazed how much "progressives" underestimate the war like aggression of the people in this country. Let me put it even more bluntly, many in the slippery base against the war would support continued occupations of oil producing countries, if it meant $5, $6 or higher gasoline costs.
"Darth" Dickee's statement of the military forces who, "voluntarily put on the uniform" is identical to what I hear from many out here in the sticks of Kansas. They'll wrap the flag around their very own sons and daughters in the rentals and trailer parks and send them off to the military because it gets the young'uns out of the nest and away from their dining tables. Read consider,
Antiwar Campaigners Have to Change Electoral Tactics and a whole lot more.
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