[Peace-discuss] Jeffrey St.Clair of Counterpunch:

[Karen Aram]

True, but the Republicans haven’t exactly, led, the anti-war movement either, now have they?

Johnson escalated it, until his Advisors told him to stop. We then got Nixon who was responsible for the secret bombing of Cambodia, in which we dropped more bombs than on any nation ever, as of 2007 according to Chomsky. Cambodia, Laos destroyed, along with Chile, during Nixon's reign.  

It doesn’t matter who is in the White House, our foreign policy of death and imperialism continues unabated, under both Party’s. 

The American people tended to sleep during the 8 years of Obama, now perhaps they will awaken, because Trump’s domestic policies are killing us. 

And, it is on Trump’s plate now, no excuses. 

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 19:11, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> The Democrats have co-opted and eviscerated the anti-war movement for two generations, from Johnson (“no wider war’) to Obama (“no dumb wars”) - while they expanded the killing.
> 
> The Democrat war party is responsible for the duplicitous and fantastical anti-Russia movement - "aligning itself fatally with some of the most bloodthirsty hawks on the Hill and in doing so …  abetting every drone strike, Cruise missile and MOAB bomb…”
> 
> The anti-war movement should have nothing to do with them, unless they agree to demand all US troops (and weapons) be brought home.
> 
> —CGE
> 
>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Jeffrey St Clair writes:
>> I used to believe that rightwing militarism would be countered by a liberated and reanimated anti-war movement that had refused to confront liberal wars. But where is it now? Where are the mass protests against Trump's expanding wars in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the new re-surge in Afghanistan? Where are the protest against the rising slaughter of civilians? Where indeed. The liberal antiwar movement has morphed into an anti-Russia movement, aligning itself fatally with some of the most bloodthirsty hawks on the Hill and in doing so is abetting every drone strike, Cruise missile and MOAB bomb Trump drops.
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