[Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: There's No Republican Mandate for More War

[Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

A significant part of the Republican party remained anti-war and anti-intervnetionist, even after Obama seduced and abandoned anti-war Democrats. 

The Ron Paul wing of the Republicans calls for US troops to be brought home and foreign bases to be closed. 

They should be supported and encouraged, while we oppose Obama's military and economic policies. 


On Nov 5, 2014, at 5:56 PM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Don't give 'em any bad ideas.
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> (They have enough already)
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> On 11/06/2014 05:12 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/theres-no-republican-mand_b_6108784.html
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>> It's true that some Republican candidates tried to use the "ISIS crisis" to portray Democrats as "weak on national security." But these Republicans haven't yet been forced to put forward and defend any specific "more aggressive" alternative policy in the court of public opinion. It's one thing to say that you think the President is doing a bad job confronting ISIS. It's quite another to be forced to say what exactly you would do differently.
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>> Do these Republicans want to see U.S. ground troops engaged in combat against ISIS in Iraq and Syria? If so, let them say so on the record; let them introduce and vote for an authorization of force for Iraq and Syria that includes the use of ground combat troops...
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