PEACE MOVEMENT: DEAD OR ALIVE?
Washington, DC
Alexander Cockburn makes three points in "Support Their Troops?" ["Beat the Devil," July 30/Aug. 6]. One is right, one is wrong, one is preposterous. First, he says the US peace movement doesn't embrace the Iraqi resistance. Right. Second, the peace movement is "pretty much dead." Wrong. Third, publicly sympathizing with the Iraqi resistance will somehow build "the necessary critical mass to have a real movement."
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