Re: [Marxism] Seymour/Ayers

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Cod wrote:

"An excellent example of how the mass antiwar movement did deter the warmongers 
was offered by Daniel Ellsberg who stated that "Operation Duck Hoop" scheduled 
for November 1969 in which Nixon planned a massive operation to bomb the dikes 
in Vietnam was called off because of the monster mass protests occuring in at 
that time."

And I would argue precisely the same thing happened in the Iraq War. I'm firmly 
convinced the decision to send "too few" troops (which certainly helped 
increase the success of the resistance) was taken not because of some "Rumsfeld 
doctrine," but because Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. were convinced they could 
only sell the war to the American people (and to the Democrats) by minimizing 
its cost, and pretending that it could be "won" "on the cheap." Were it not for 
the demonstrated opposition of the public, they would have gladly sent twice as 
many troops, and conducted twice as many Fallujah-type massacres.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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