Today I interviewed Steve Berean, a former radical anti-war protestor, opponent of the U.S. government, revolutionary socialist activist, who spent his life organizing protests against the war in Vietnam, defending the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Cuban Communists, the Palestine Liberation Organization; and participated in the Socialist Workers Party intervention into the trade union movement... but today supports the U.S.-led war against terrorism.
He had some very interesting things to say: In every war there are those who 1) are afraid to confront and take a passive position 2) those who sumpathize with the enemy. Steve said that radical anit-war movements take their tactics from the socialists/communists which include:
1) Start speaking out against the war.
2) Then blame the U.S.: It's the U.S. & its soliders that are torturing people; it's U.S. 'imperialist propaganda!", etc.
3) Exaggerate claims, or lie straight out.
4) Look for Rabbis, ministers, politicians and soliders just home from the war (Vietnam or Iraqi vets) who might be sympathetic to their cause, influence them and use them to to be a mouthpiece to further their cause.
© Sharon Hughes 2005
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