<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Justin Raimondo" <<a href="mailto:Justin@antiwar.com">Justin@Antiwar.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 25, 2016 at 12:34:57 AM GMT+8<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cge@shout.net">cge@shout.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>We're on the Verge of a Big Breakthrough</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p align="center"><b><font size="6">We're on the Verge of a Big Breakthrough!</font></b></p>
<p>Dear friend of <a href="http://antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a>,</p>
<p>We’re headed for a big breakthrough – but we need your help to make it real.</p>
<p>As Bob Dylan put it, “the times they are a changing!” – and that is surely
the case when it comes to the debate over US foreign policy. A <a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/414937/44/" target="_blank">recent
article</a> in the <i>Boston Globe</i>, summarizing the observations of a group
of Brown University students who tracked the foreign policy discourse of the
candidates, underscored what is happening on both sides of the partisan divide:</p>
<p><i><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/10697/45/" target="_blank"><img src="http://antiwar.com/aapledge/antiwar_donate_160x200a.gif" width="160" height="200" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="9" border="0"></a>“<span style="background:white">As
we watched, Republican voters rejected every candidate who favored their party’s
traditional hardline foreign policies, including Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie,
Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio…. </span>Trump, the presumptive nominee,… asserts
that decades of foreign wars have not been good for the United States – hardly
a traditional Republican view.”</i></p>
<p>The Democratic party, too, is experiencing what these youthful observers describe
as a “foreign policy identity crisis”:</p>
<p><i>“Clinton, the likely nominee, is an activist by nature and supports escalation
from Afghanistan to Syria to Ukraine. Her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders,
has condemned her ‘very aggressive policy of intervention’ and said he does
not believe the United States should be ‘the world’s policeman.’”</i></p>
<p>On the right as well as the left, the anti-interventionists are on the offensive.
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<p>This turmoil is cause for optimism. Take a look at what I wrote just last year,
in making “<a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/261646/48/" target="_blank">The
Case for Optimism</a>”:</p>
<p><i>“It used to be that we had to rely on government officials and their journalistic
camarilla for information about America’s far-flung military interventions:
back in 1914, for example, very few Americans could place<span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/414938/49/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">Sarajevo</span></a><span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span>on a map, and even fewer knew of the
complex political and social factors that led to the fateful assassination of
an Austrian archduke in that city, an event that eventually<span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/414939/50/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">dragged us</span></a><span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span>into the Great War. It was easy to fool
the people into believing a conflict that would destroy European civilization
at its zenith was really a war to ‘make the world safe for democracy.’</i></p>
<p><i>“Today the job of the war propagandist is much harder, and the reason is<span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/414940/51/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">the Internet</span></a>.
While most Americans still probably couldn’t place Sarajevo on a map, they could
easily choose to do so with a<span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/414941/52/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">few keystrokes</span></a><span><span style="color:#222222"> </span></span>–
and therein lies the big problem faced by warmongers these days.”</i></p>
<p>The case for optimism has never been stronger. War Party is beleaguered, besieged,
and beside itself with panic because the American people are finally waking
up. A lot of this is due to the Internet – and the existence of <a href="http://antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a>
has played a part in all this.</p>
<p>For twenty years we’ve been debunking the lies of the War Party and building
up a slow but steady momentum on behalf of a real movement to change American
foreign policy. And now the big breakthrough is upon us.</p>
<p>The part <a href="http://antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a> plays in all this is key – because the voters don’t necessarily
have the facts on hand. When some bought-and-paid for “expert” is cited in the
media as being absolutely <i>certain</i> that some tinpot despot has “weapons
of mass destruction,” they may be skeptical of the need for Uncle Sam to intervene
– but they don’t know enough to contest “expert” opinion. This is how the Beltway
crowd pulls the wool over people’s eyes every time. Yet there is an antidote
for the poisonous lies being spread by the War Party – and that’s <a href="http://antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a>.</p>
<p>Yet we can’t continue our work without <a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/10697/53/" target="_blank">your
support – your financial support</a>. Unlike the Beltway “experts,” we don’t
get millions of dollars from the arms industry, nor do foreign countries fund
us as they fund the Washington think tanks. We are independent, and we serve
only our readers – you. But that means you have to do your part.</p>
<p>We’ve raised $29,000 in from a small group of our most generous (and well-heeled!)
donors – but there’s a catch. We can only draw from this fund to the extent
that we match it. And that’s where you come in.</p>
<p>Our current fundraising campaign has been ongoing for the better part of the
last two weeks, and we’re now approaching make-or-break time. The matching funds
are here, and it’s all in your hands now. We’re counting on you to put us over
the top. </p>
<p>Twenty years ago we started our campaign to effect a fundamental change in
US foreign policy – and now we really do have a chance to achieve our goal.
</p>
<p>After a long march through the wilderness of the 1990s and into the new millennium,
we are finally beginning to see a real turnaround in public opinion. Help us
make the last few miles of our long march – help us change the way America interacts
with the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The big breakthrough is upon us! That’s why it’s more important than ever that
you <b><a href="http://pr2.netatlantic.com/t/23629271/193080650/10697/54/" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "pr2.netatlantic.com" claiming to be</b></font> make your tax-deductible donation
to Antiwar.com today.</a></b></p>
<p><b>In peace and liberty,</b></p>
<p><b>Justin Raimondo<br>
</b><b>Editorial Director<br>
</b><b><a href="http://antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a></b></p>
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