digitalreporter wrote:
] ] In the battle to influence public opinion, the antiwar
] ] movement's worst enemy may prove to be the television.
] ]
] ] Daily reports from the front lines put the troops
] ] foremost in American thought - an omnipresence that makes
] ] it easier for taxi drivers and hairdressers, white-collar
] ] workers and televangelists, to sympathize with the
] ] servicemen and -women, and to argue that protesters
] ] should be supporting those fighting in Iraq instead of
] ] holding rallies to oppose the war.

I'm not for killing but I have heard the stories my dad has told me about how things here made him feel when he was in Vietnam and when he returned. I don't think most of those people appreciate what the soldiers do. They don't want to be over there anymore than we don't want them to be.

RE: Antiwar protesters in a PR fix | csmonitor.com