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01-23-2003, 07:49 PM
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:blue'>R. Emmett Tyrrell January 23, 2003
Peace movements never end with peace
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Of the poor, it has been said, "Ye shall always have with ye." The same might also be said of peace movements. They are always with us, even in time of peace, and even when a Hitler or a Mao is rattling a saber.
America did not need Saddam Hussein snarling from Baghdad to entertain a peace movement. In fact, even before President George W. Bush was sounding the alarm against international terrorism and Saddam's grisly arsenal, an American peace movement was gently purring with its customary moral superiority.
To be sure, Saddam's insouciance toward UN resolutions and the president's impatience with him has given our peace movement a wonderful jump-start, as the phrase has it. Yet the American peace movement endured after the end of the Cold War, though it was only a pale version of its old boastful self and its melodramatic bumper stickers surely evoked rude laughs from 1990s Americans.
Pulling their legs was doomed to futility. (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/)</span></span>
Peace movements never end with peace
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Of the poor, it has been said, "Ye shall always have with ye." The same might also be said of peace movements. They are always with us, even in time of peace, and even when a Hitler or a Mao is rattling a saber.
America did not need Saddam Hussein snarling from Baghdad to entertain a peace movement. In fact, even before President George W. Bush was sounding the alarm against international terrorism and Saddam's grisly arsenal, an American peace movement was gently purring with its customary moral superiority.
To be sure, Saddam's insouciance toward UN resolutions and the president's impatience with him has given our peace movement a wonderful jump-start, as the phrase has it. Yet the American peace movement endured after the end of the Cold War, though it was only a pale version of its old boastful self and its melodramatic bumper stickers surely evoked rude laughs from 1990s Americans.
Pulling their legs was doomed to futility. (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/)</span></span>