RE: [MAPC-discuss] People Say It's Not Vietnam
Title
RE: [MAPC-discuss] People Say It's Not Vietnam
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Date Entered
2001-11-01
September 11 Email: Body
Remember that it took a long time before Americans realized that
the Vietnam war was wrong. We are going to have to continue
to do a lot of convincing. /we can only hope that it doesn't
come to domestic (as in: from other Americans) violence before
we get our point across as it did during the Vietnam era.
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>From: "X" <X>
>To: discuss@madpeace.org
>Date: 11/01 1:39:47 PM
>
> People are saying this is not Vietnam, and they're getting
away with it.
>
> Last night I was leafletting at the Dylan concert. A wall
of
>indifference. I'm sure my leafletting technique could use some
improvement.
> But still, fans don't connect this anti-war singer to peace.
>
> And Feingold Sunday at the Pyle Center. He defended our
bombing in
>Afghanistan as justified self-defense, just after he mentioned
(bragged?)
>that he had protested against the Vietnam War right outside
that building.
>It's maddening that he's trying to get credit for a past anti-war
stance,
>while firmly siding with the status quo now.
>
> The Nation's Katha Pollitt recently stated that this war
is not like
>Vietnam. She took potshots at the peace movement, and repeated
the mantra:
>this war is justified self defense. Then in the end she agreed
it's a
>stupid and wrong-headed approach, exactly as she initially characterized
>Vietnam.
>
> Castro's speech handed out at the last Socialist Potluck
showed some
>valid parallels between this war and Vietnam. The vague goal,
the
>unidentifiable enemy, and now the advisors going in.
>
> September 11th is functioning as a pretext, and people won't
acknowledge
>it. Several thousand Americans are killed, so that gives us
the right to
>starve several MILLION Afghanis? That gives us the right to
wage war
>against any number of countries, and use WHATEVER methods and
weapons we
>want?
>
> How can we tap into Americans' belief that Vietnam was wrong,
so that
>they will see this war is wrong in the same way?
>
>
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September 11 Email: Date
Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:47 PM
September 11 Email: Subject
RE: [MAPC-discuss] People Say It's Not Vietnam
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“RE: [MAPC-discuss] People Say It's Not Vietnam,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 25, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/1197.