Ending War 101

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/ending-war-101/25794/

UCI prof’s book could be the real roadmap to peace

A few days ago, Fox News Official Broadcaster of the Republican Party, began softening the public-opinion beachhead ahead of the November election, saying Democrats have returned to the failed anti-war policies of the 1960s and ’70s. In just those few words, Fox got everything wrong: elected Democrats today don’t invariably oppose George W. Bush’s Iraq adventure any more than elected Republicans uniformly support it; far from opposing the Vietnam War, Democrats at the time were its architects; it was left to Republican Richard Nixon to end the war.

Finally, the fact that Nixon abandoned an immoral war was hardly a failure; it may mark one of our nation’s great social achievements.