[Peace-discuss] Fwd: We're on the Verge of a Big Breakthrough

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> From: "Justin Raimondo" <Justin at Antiwar.com>
> Date: May 25, 2016 at 12:34:57 AM GMT+8
> To: cge at shout.net
> Subject: We're on the Verge of a Big Breakthrough
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> We're on the Verge of a Big Breakthrough!
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> Dear friend of Antiwar.com,
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> We’re headed for a big breakthrough – but we need your help to make it real.
> 
> 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 recent article in the Boston Globe, 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:
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> “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…. Trump, the presumptive nominee,… asserts that decades of foreign wars have not been good for the United States – hardly a traditional Republican view.”
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> The Democratic party, too, is experiencing what these youthful observers describe as a “foreign policy identity crisis”:
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> “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.’”
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> On the right as well as the left, the anti-interventionists are on the offensive.
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> This turmoil is cause for optimism. Take a look at what I wrote just last year, in making “The Case for Optimism”:
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> “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 Sarajevo 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 dragged us 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.’
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> “Today the job of the war propagandist is much harder, and the reason is the Internet. While most Americans still probably couldn’t place Sarajevo on a map, they could easily choose to do so with a few keystrokes – and therein lies the big problem faced by warmongers these days.”
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> 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 Antiwar.com has played a part in all this.
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> 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.
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> The part Antiwar.com 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 certain 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 Antiwar.com.
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> Yet we can’t continue our work without your support – your financial support. 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The big breakthrough is upon us! That’s why it’s more important than ever that you MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "pr2.netatlantic.com" claiming to be make your tax-deductible donation to Antiwar.com today.
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> In peace and liberty,
> 
> Justin Raimondo
> Editorial Director
> Antiwar.com
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