[Peace-discuss] WaPo: how Pete B. went from war protester to war veteran

[C G Estabrook]

The best analysis of Buttigieg I’ve seen (I knew his father sightly at Notre Dame) is by Nathan Robinson in the excellent Current Affairs:

<https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete>.

And here’s Robinson’s interesting follow-up to his article: <https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/why-bother-trying-to-persuade-anyone>.

—CGE



> On Jul 29, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> This is pretty damning. 
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> "It was only after Barack Obama was elected, and just months before Buttigieg would launch his own political career, that he finally walked into the recruiting office.
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> Only then did he decide to join a conflict that six years earlier he had denounced from the stage of an antiwar rally."
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/how-pete-buttigieg-went-war-protester-packing-my-bags-afghanistan/
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> Robert Reuel Naiman
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