Word: defeatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Half Don't. By Hoppe's count, the nation is now waging 174 wars, including those against "pollution, smog, hunger, smut, poverty, the Vietnamese and middle-aged sag" - and is developing a defeatist attitude because it is losing them all. He claims that "the doves" have even taken over the war on poverty and this means that "Mr. Nixon has clearly given up any hope of winning...
...impression one gets from SDS gatherings is that its members feel a rising sense of desperation, a growing isolation from the rest of the student body and therefore a rising willingness to take unilateral action. If this is so then it is also clear that this is a defeatist mood which SDS is bringing upon itself for no good reason. There is absolutely no justification for SDS to maintain this posture of defensive, though dignified, elitism. SDS should not adopt the attitude that it is going to do its thing no matter what and the rest of the student body...
Should we pull our forces in close to specific populated enclaves in order to improve theoretically the security of those areas, we would make a de facto partition of the country, similar to what has happened in Laos. It is a defeatist strategy, since the enemy always has the initiative. The only sound reason I know to adopt such a strategy in Viet Nam would be as a prelude to withdrawal from the country...
...Market, Britain's shrinking role as a world power, the retreat from East of Suez, austerity at home and the feeling that Wilson has equivocated in his statements to the country-a Wilsonian credibility gap that is equal to Lyndon Johnson's. Wilson has heatedly denounced "the defeatist cries, the moaning minnies, the wet editorials," but he seems unable to halt his rapid slide. A new national poll released last week on the eve of Wilson's departure for Washington showed that the Tories are leading the Laborites by 18.3% among the voters-enough to cost Wilson...
...bridges and keeping communications lines open. Another 200,000 are manning antiaircraft batteries, and a further 200,000 coolies are occupied in taking stuff to the South. This has created grave inroads into the manpower of the country. There is fear about sabotaging of plants and the spreading of defeatist rumors...