[Peace-discuss] Tim Johnson off the fence

[C. G. Estabrook]

No, I don't think so -- just a certain contempt for the electorate and
(more) an attempt to be on both sides of an issue (cf. Gore's "anti-war"
speech last week).


On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Alfred Kagan wrote:

> Actually, I think we should count it a small victory that he did not
> commit himself until the last moment.
> 
> >Honestly, Carl, I can't say I did doubt it.  I think a lot of us 
> >tried, not to "hope" exactly, but to "suspend disbelief" - as if we 
> >were watching a horror movie (shouting, "Behind you!  Behind you!") 
> >- but not too successfully.
> >
> >Fortunately - just to stretch the poor analogy as far as it will go 
> >- we know that many people can hear us, many already saw the danger, 
> >and that we are not really in a movie that we can't change: so much 
> >greater the horror.
> >
> >So much greater the need to organize.
> >
> >Ricky Baldwin
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> >Champaign, IL 61820
> >(217)356-2205