Posted on 03/21/2007 5:42:12 AM PDT by tobyhill
NEW YORK - America's current anti-war movement is resourceful and persistent, but often seems to lack the vibrancy of its counterpart in the Vietnam era when protesters burned draft cards, occupied buildings and even tried to levitate the Pentagon.
The biggest difference, say activists and historians, is the lack of a draft.
Today's college-age youth face no threat of conscription to fight in Iraq, and campuses are more tranquil than during Vietnam.
"We're not as unified, not as hard-core, not as big," said Frida Berrigan, 32, a board member of the War Resisters League and daughter of the late peace activist Philip Berrigan. "There's a reason there's not a draft."
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NEEDS a BARF alert.
Look, the fact of the matter is this: None of these protesters give a rip about the troops. Period.
In the protesters' perfect world, the US would be an irrelevant country with no armed services.
And the great irony is this: Without a strong military to protect America against it enemies, which are manifold, they(the protesters - many of whom are socialists, communists or anarchists) would not have the ability nor the right to protest.
If they think the US is such a morally bankrupt nation, they should try another nation-state, like Russia or China or Syria(just to name a few).
LOL So now the fact that there isn't a draft is part of a conspiracy to reduce the protests. They bitched when there was a draft, now they're bitching because there isn't one. What a bunch of wackos!
No mention of the radical leftists involved. Just a bunch of collegians. NOT
The Demorats that have made token calls for a draft have done so only in an attempt to invigorate the anti-war effort. Without a draft they are finding it hard to tap into the self-interest that the boomers had and the "anti-war" movement is more the "anti-American/capitalism/Bush/Israel/border enforcement/free-trade/carnivore" movement. Needless to say, you can fit an awful lot of freaks into a big tent...
I saw it all before, in the '60's. Same Marxist and anarchist BS, supposedly idealism. Probably organized by some of the same misfit people.
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