[Peace-discuss] The past is prologue

[Morton K. Brussel]

This is truly whistling in the dark. The Republicans, McCain at the  
helm, now hold our hopes for peace.

Nixon, as Carl ought to know, carried on the Vietnam war for several  
more years after '68, and Bush I initiated the first Gulf War.  
Antiwar heroes they? With Bush? As for Eisenhower, the Korean war  
ended in his administration, after threatening nuclear war.

This ratiocination, an attempt to sabotage clear thinking,  can only  
be called perverse.

--mkb


On Aug 24, 2008, at 10:39 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> The 20th-century bromide was, "With the Democrats, you get war;  
> with the Republicans, recession."  Among the 15 presidential  
> elections since WWII, the Democrats could win the presidency when  
> they ran against a Republican recession: 1960, 1976, 1992; the  
> Republicans could win the presidency when they ran against a  
> Democratic war: 1952, 1968, 2000.  Obviously that leaves nine  
> elections when the patterns didn't obtain.  But this year they may  
> clash.
>
> Since most Americans today see themselves to be in the midst of a  
> recession, and the Republicans control the presidency, 2008 should  
> be like the first set. But the Democrats have made the current  
> Mideast war their own: given control of Congress in 2006 to end it,  
> they refused to do so.  Obama tried to garner the anti-war vote,  
> but it became clear that, far from being opposed to war in the  
> Mideast, he was actually calling for more.  McCain can be like  
> Eisenhower in 1952, Nixon in 1968, and Bush in 2000: while  
> insisting on his patriotism, he can condemn the Democrats' handling  
> of the war.   So the 2008 election might be like the second set.
>
> Which pattern will prevail?  In 1992, the Democrats said. "It's the  
> economy, stupid."  But this time it might be the war. --CGE
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