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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Not taking it to the streets

As with Vietnam, public opinion turned against the Iraq war when American casualties began to rise. But then the analogy breaks down.
By Tom Engelhardt

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  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007 02:01 PM

    I am vaguely familiar with the FIRST Indochina war

    The one the French fought through 1954. They lost 90,000 people twice that the US suffered. And if truth be told there wasn't much grassroots objection. It was the political elite, the leadership that lost hope and quit. If anything public ire reached its peak during the most pacifist period of modern French history - 1968. So sometimes protest is directly related to the absence of the possibility of consequences not the other way around.

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