Comments on: Antiwar movement. TNG http://polizeros.com/2008/01/19/antiwar-movement-tng/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/01/19/antiwar-movement-tng/comment-page-1/#comment-147719 DJ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:27:59 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2008/01/19/antiwar-movement-tng/#comment-147719 Ah, the next level. It would include analysis of the roots of conflict, and strategy that goes beyond mere power politics. Just as the anti-Vietnam-War movement represented far more than just the war in Vietnam, every war and every (successful) peace movement is far more complex than the public rhetoric suggests. I've offered my services as an analyst to a number of prople and groups that supposedly want to end wars. They aren't interested in complexity-- it seems to challenge their idea of what an anti-war movement should be. Yet peace is impossible without addressing thwe roots of a conflict-- and that means we need to know what the roots are. Ah, the next level. It would include analysis of the roots of conflict, and strategy that goes beyond mere power politics. Just as the anti-Vietnam-War movement represented far more than just the war in Vietnam, every war and every (successful) peace movement is far more complex than the public rhetoric suggests.

I’ve offered my services as an analyst to a number of prople and groups that supposedly want to end wars. They aren’t interested in complexity– it seems to challenge their idea of what an anti-war movement should be. Yet peace is impossible without addressing thwe roots of a conflict– and that means we need to know what the roots are.

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