Summary
American troops are dying in Afghanistan in record numbers, drone- launched mis-siles are killing more people in Pakistan, American aircraft are carrying out missions over Libya, terrorist detainees are facing military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, and WikiLeaker Pfc. Bradley Manning is allegedly being tortured. Despite all this grist, the antiwar movement in 2011 is a shadow of its Bush-era self. The obvious explanation for this is that there is a Democrat in the White House, and according to a new study, this simple answer is largely correct.
"The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007-2009," by Michael T. Heaney of the University of Michigan and Fabio Rojas of Indiana University, appeared in the March 2011 edition of the journal Mobilization. The study was based on 5,398 surveys of demonstrators at antiwar protests over three years and numerous interviews with movement leaders. It's one of the most comprehensive studies undertaken of the contemporary antiwar rabble.See the full content of this document
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; Antiwar Democrats Give a Pass to Obama Violence
The authors chronicle the collapse of the most visible and romanticized manifestation of antiwar sentiment: the public demonstration. Rallie...
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