[Peace-discuss] The anti-war movement didn't die - it was murdered, like King Duncan

[C G Estabrook]

The liberal NYT columnist Maureen Dowd gives a disillusioned account of Obama: 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html>>.

In 2008, Obama and the Democrats mendaciously co-opted the anti-war movement to win the presidency - and then prosecuted US wars and heightened US war provocations:  
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/noam-chomsky-obamas-drone-program-most-extreme-terrorist-campaign-modern-times <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/19/noam-chomsky-obamas-drone-program-most-extreme-terrorist-campaign-modern-times>>.

Strangely, AWARE - a thriving anti-war organization a dozen years ago - presaged in miniature the fell effect of the Obama campaign and presidency:
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/ <https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/>>.

—CGE






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