There's no shame in opposing useless bloodshed. Fewer people were killed in Northern Ireland after the IRA gave up its goal of uniting Ireland by force. Most people see that as a good thing. Fewer people were killed in Vietnam after the U.S. withdrew its troops. Most people see that as a good thing. A lot of people didn't like the political outcome, but enough people conceded that more bloodshed wasn't going to change the political outcome, so the bloodshed should be stopped, even though the goal that had been used to justify the bloodshed hadn't been achieved.
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose you are right in the sense that fewer Spaniards got killed > after Franco consolidated power. > > On 9/23/15 12:37 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > there's growing momentum for a US-Russia-Iran deal to end the anti-Assad > > part of the war. So there will actually be less war, as a result of what > > the Democrats are doing, then you seem to want - you want the war to > > continue until Assad is toppled, but Democrats increasingly want to end > > the anti-Assad part of the war. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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