From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 13:23:01 MST
John K Clark wrote:
> "Kai Becker" <kmb@kai-m-becker.de> Wrote:
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>>Had the current US regime be in charge 1940, it wouldn't
>>have gone against Nazi Germany,
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> Actually, the USA did not go to war with Nazi Germany in 1940 because in
> that year there was a powerful peace movement in the land; it makes you
> realize that peace movements are not always on the side of the angels.
>
It makes me realize that Peace Movements will get the blame
whether we go to war or not, or when we are in a war. In the
latter case such are decried as "unpatriotic" and
"demoralizing". In the case of a war we later entered and saw
as a good thing the Peace Movement was obviously showing its
true and nefarious colors. In the case of a war we later
entered or were in and subsequently considered largely wrong,
the Peace Movement is seen as largely responsible for any
unsatisfactory outcomes of that war.
- samantha
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