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From: silber@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ami A. Silberman)
Subject: Re: Actually, Nine Percent Ain't Bad
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.185316.13519@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 18:53:16 GMT
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gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
>have an excellent chance of seeing the dissolution of the War 
>Machine in your lifetime.  And you would not know this without 
>the public-relations victories of the War Machine's servitors 
>and sycophants.  Keep the faith.

(Most of the analysis deleted.)  And, given enough time, there will
be more members of the peace movement than people?  Wow, animal
sentience!:)  Seriously, there are differences in the peace movement
then and now.  In the Desert Storm peace movement, a fair number
of the nay-sayers were pessimists (I must admit that I was a bit of one
myself until after the airwar started) who just thought it would be a
bad idea.  Remember, back in September and August the talk was of the
large number of casualties engendered by an immeadiate ground offensive.
The other thing to keep in mind was that back in the early days of
Veitnam, large portions of the American left were actually in favor of
the war, for a variety of reasons.

ami silberman - janitor of lunacy