Word: peacenik
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...pressed to fill its army as it is. Certainly not the United States, which is always wary of wars in faraway places with tenuous connections to American interests, particularly in tropical jungles. Surely, he isn’t suggesting Europe will do the job, given his disdain for their peacenik agenda. Who then? Perhaps Lee should volunteer to found the Harvard American Division for the Liberation of Colombia and get the opportuntiy to see the military situation first-hand. As it is, his military analysis...
JERUSALEM The Disappointed Peacenik DORIT SEIDEMAN, 40/three children...
...Omen 150 college students in Berkeley, California?the peacenik capital of the world?held a pro-war rally last week, calling for the United States to "whip terrorism...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia’s ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult...
...even begin to discredit their message that the U.S. war in Vietnam was an unjust and ill-conceived adventure that killed thousands of defenseless peasants and ravaged a country. Thirty years after the Vietnam War, history has vindicated them. Don’t ask an old peacenik. Ask Robert McNamara, one of the architects of the war in the Johnson administration. A few years ago, he publicly recanted his tireless backing of the war while in office...