Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several fallacies with the opinion that progressives should favor the draft. First, we can not assume that by spreading the burden of the war buildup throughout society, people will spontaneously fight the militarism. I do believe that people in general move, struggle, and fight based upon how policies or conditions affect their material well-being. The fact that militarism objectively touches the lives of the American people in a negative way establishes the basis for broad acceptance of an anti-imperialist analysis of U.S. foreign policy...
People must see that progressive demands coincide with their best interests. However, it is possible that through jingoism, well orchestrated media campaigns, a Russian invasion of Poland, etc., people might consider the military buildup worth the sacrifices it entails. The United States has only been in one broadly unpopular war; the American people supported WWI, WWII, Korea, etc. The American people are not consolidated pacifists, and I do believe that there are situations where the majority of Americans would favor a military buildup...
What we must do is fight the war buildup at every step, clearly pointing out the motives and objectives of the U.S. government in preparing the country for war. In this way we can raise the consciousness of people to the extent that they can better determine if the possibility of losing a loved one is worth a U.S. war of aggression for the oil monopolies...
...find fault with the subtle assumption in the editorial which implies that he "middle class" has not felt the effect of the war buildup, and drafting their sons will give them a taste of it. On the contrary, the war budget is dashing to the ground every middle-class dream that ever existed in America--a house, a college education, even a steady job. This is because the issue is not the military buildup but an attempt to revive a hopeless economy through militarism and make the American people pay for it. This means massive cutbacks in the standard...
...crew in the cockpit of Air Florida's Flight 90 were not oblivious to the freezing conditions; their plane had been de-iced twice. Yet the pilots' attitude about the buildup of ice on their Boeing 737 was at times casual, perhaps imprudently so, judging from their tape-recorded conversations released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board. Just after the joking stopped, the jet lumbered into the air, slammed against a bridge and plunged into the Potomac River, killing the pilots, 72 others aboard and four passing motorists...