APPOINTMENT WITH WAR
WAVES of radicalism come every 30 or 40 years in the United States. Now that a new one is upon us, thanks to President George Bush’s threatened invasion of Iraq, observers are comparing it to the last. During the Vietnam war, it took three years, until 1968, of massive US military intervention before large-scale national protests got underway. This time, 200,000 people descended on Washington and surrounded the White House on 26 October while 80,000 more marched in San Francisco.
by Daniel Lazare
They were protesting against a war still in its talking stages. Where college members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were the driving force in the 1960s, when conscription was still in force, today’s antiwar movement is far more broadly based. Opponents of the Vietnam war were a (...)
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