Word: antiwar
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Unshackled by the vagaries of public opinion, despots find it easier than do the leaders of democracies to march their countries into battle. But once they begin a war, Americans have an appetite for victory. If Saddam Hussein is betting that antiwar protests can grant him a triumph he cannot win on the battlefield, the odds are much against...
During the debate on granting the President authority to use force against Iraq, Gerald B.H. Solomon, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, lambasted antiwar protesters. They are, Solomon intoned, "unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug-culture poor excuses for Americans." Then Solomon aimed his rhetorical blunderbuss at Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's Today show, who had expressed surprise at polls showing that most Americans felt the government was telling the press all they needed to know about the war. Quoth Solomon: "Evidently, ((Gumbel)) can't bear the idea of an American victory. He wants another American humiliation, another Vietnam...
...body bags that became a repellent cliche of pre-Jan. 16 antiwar oratory, and that have been so remarkably scarce through the first three weeks of actual war, might pile up quickly, though probably nowhere near as high as Saddam Hussein's propagandists suggest. But how many soldiers' deaths are likely if the attack begins next week, the week after, a month later, two months later? How many Iraqi civilians might die in the meantime from U.S. bombing? What number of casualties, and over how long a period, can the U.S. stand without a disastrous loss in public support...
...more remarkable, and encouraging, that in America's domestic debate over the war in the gulf, patriotism has not taken sides. Supporters of the use of force have no monopoly on national pride, any more than protesters have sole claim to the desire for peace. Antiwar demonstrators are waving flags, not burning them, praising and praying for the troops even as they condemn the policies that sent them to the front. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, read signs at a huge Washington peace rally two weeks ago; BRING THEM HOME NOW. Their opponents, meanwhile, carry banners saying WE WANT PEACE...
...notably economic sanctions. The newly retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, hoped that economic sanctions would be tried for months more, even up to a year, before any resort to force. An even more difficult criterion to assess is "proportionality," the weighing of the good and evil results. The antiwar protest from leaders of the National Council of Churches included forecasts of hundreds of thousands of casualties and damage lasting "for generations to come...