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...current presence in the Gulf is not unjustified -- there seems to be a legitimate U.S. national interest in the Middle East. But Bush's strategy -- casting a shadow of the true U.S. interest in the region and rallying pro-war fervor our of a jingoistic moral obligation to peace and democracy -- is not the way we should conduct foreign policy. Such a mentality would lead to a dangerously interventionist United States. That's not in anyone's interest -- not the world...
Keynote speaker Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, Boston city councillor-at-large, whipped on-lookers into a nationalistic fervor with his condemnation of anti-war demonstrators and his fervent pleas for support of American soldiers...
African-American ambivalence about military service dates back to the Revolutionary War, when blacks enthusiastically fought for independence in the hope that their patriotic fervor would prove them worthy of freedom and citizenship. In this century, while blacks were generally supportive of both world wars, their discontent erupted publicly during Vietnam, when Martin Luther King Jr. and others opposed an unfair draft that conscripted the disadvantaged while allowing many sons of the middle class to escape military service. Those divided loyalties continue to tug at blacks today and will add to the burden of unfinished business awaiting the homecoming soldiers...
...many residents still reflect the city's patriotic fervor and traditional support for the military--which dates back as far as the Revolutionary...
...political leanings of the immigrants may not be so monolithic. Of the 185,000 Jews who left the U.S.S.R. for Israel last year, some did so out of religious fervor, some to flee from anti-Semitism, many to escape hunger and civil unrest. Nearly one-third of the estimated 3.5 million Jews remaining in the Soviet Union are expected in Israel by 1992, increasing the Israeli population 20%. For them Israel offers the only readily available alternative, now that access to the U.S. and Canada has been sharply restricted...