Word: antiwar
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...George and Tony Show Re J.F.O. McAllister's article anticipating problems that might arise during President Bush's state visit to Britain [Nov. 17]: While Bush visited London, I marched through Edinburgh with thousands of fellow protesters. This nonviolent demonstration was antiwar, not anti-American. After the slaughter of thousands of innocent people on 9/11, I was deeply saddened that our leaders decided to slaughter thousands more in battle. As the body count rises, I urge everyone to draw inspiration from the nonviolent challenges of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a truly great American. Gordon J. Millar Edinburgh...
...would flame out. But the former Vermont Governor has roared ahead by defying three early assumptions about the race. When the leading candidates believed it would be political suicide to oppose George Bush on national security, Dean unambiguously inveighed against the Iraq invasion and caught the Democratic Party's antiwar wave. While the others were dialing for $2,000 checks and lining up big-name political consultants, Dean seized on the Internet's potential to raise money and organize grass-roots support. (He had been running for more than a year before he hired a pollster.) And as consequential...
...been kept away from their friends and family for months on end. The fact that this line of opposition to the war is so rarely cited bothers me, because it shows a lack of concern for our brave men and women in the armed forces. It suggests that the antiwar movement is motivated more by grandiose intangibles, such as fanciful-sounding “imperialism,” and “unilateralism,” than by concern for actual people—people our own age in our own towns...
...small role that concern for American troops plays in the antiwar movement was quite literally displayed during last week’s protests outside the Science Center. The approximately 60 students participating in the “End the Occupation” rally devoted the vast majority of their time and efforts to chanting things like, “Promise, promise liberation, all we see is occupation” a criticism that paints our actions in Iraq as evil and malicious. Or they decried the dawn of the “New World Empire,” depicting our actions...
This time spent on the subway is a welcome sacrifice, she said, for being able to participate in the ROTC program, which was banned from the Harvard campus in 1969 amidst the antiwar protests...