The old antiwar horse is still kicking. In 1972, South Dakota Sen. George McGovern (once a World War II bomber pilot) won the Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform. In 2007, he's still got game. In March 2007, McGovern called on Vice President Dick Cheney to resign. [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
I have always respected McGovern for expressing his beliefs clearly and sticking to them.
Occasionally I get a bit nostalgic for the good old days of the Soviet Union and the Cold War when the “good and bad guys” were more easily defined. With McGovern we’d probably still be in the same situation, so maybe I should have voted for him.
I believe he is absolutely correct in the lack of historical perspective to the point of nearly total ignorance by our politicians. Truman was possibly the last President to have a truly comprehensive view.
The trouble we are now in is at least partly due to defining the present conflict in the historical way
Do you think it strange that people who actually took part in war are against war, while those who dodged war are quick to start wars? I don’t find it strange at all.
George Santayana said, in 1905, in “The Life of Reason,”
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
frank67,
To be fair we would have to say “some who have actually taken part in war are against war.”
“Once a cat jumps on a hot stove, he will not do it again. He will not jump on a cold one either.”
The wisdom is in knowing the difference.
The real war here is not with Iraqis, not with Iraq and the invasion was not really due to the attack on 9/11. IMHO it was “an opportunity” to establish a major military base in the midst of the oil rich Middle East.
This action will not prevent another attack here and the lack of action to protect our borders, our food supply, and innumerable other points vulnerable to terrible mischief confirms this.
By successive U.S. administrations ignoring thirty years in which to have built alternative energy sourses, mass public transportation and promoted energy efficiency in housing
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