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...classic example of the anti-war movement's new attitude toward American soldiers appeared in a column in this month's Perspective. "The American men and women fighting in the Persian Gulf and their families are heroes," the columnist wrote. "They deserve every bit of support and honor we can give them... They are there because Bush asked them to be, and we must respect the fact that they have no choice but to follow orders...
Make no mistake about it--many of the same anti-war activists who support the troops of Desert Storm find their mission to be, like Vietnam, immoral (and not simply unwise). In the words of the Perspective columnist, Desert Storm is "senseless, dehumanized, hypocritical violence instigated by the United States." But in the eyes of the anti-war movement, the agents of this immorality--American troops--share none of the blame for the conduct...
...same columnist noted that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did find individuals responsible during times like these. "Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions," the civil rights leader said in 1967, "but we all must protest" Clearly King believed that Americans on the home front should express their opposition to the Vietnam...
...Fetter, a columnist from the Boston Globe, compared Saddam Hussein to the German Kaiser and to Hitler, saying that just as the United States had intervened in the two world wars even though its territory had not been directly threatened, it should also stand in defense of Kuwait today...
Will the recent phenomenon of Dersh Worship backfire amid a wave of public skepticism of an attorney-run-amok? Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe's metro columnist, certainly thinks...