The Forgotten History of the Antiwar Right

Reason TV features an interview with Brian Doherty about the forgotten history of the antiwar right. The interview is conducted by Zach Weissmueller.

Tracing its roots back to the American Anti-Imperialist League of the late 1890s, Doherty discusses the evolution of right-wing non-interventionism through the 1930s and into the Cold War of the 1950s, which ultimately led to a lasting rift between conservatives and libertarians. He also addresses the possibility of a resurgent conservative antiwar sentiment in the Obama era.

Check it out (7.5 minutes):

2 thoughts on “The Forgotten History of the Antiwar Right”

  1. Thats exactly why even good Americans are going to all be looked at just like the ones that agree with the wars better never listen to are constitution because it would not be right to not kill people on a daily bases in large numbers across the globe all based on lies and the peop[le that have nothing to do and disagree with the wars will be disliked as much as the warmongerers.They will never controll the world like they do to there own people that have a faulse sense of freedom when they are the least free people in the world because the people against the war are totally ignored.Americans used to be brave now they send drones in other countrys to kill women kids and innocents and there citizens don't demand it bbe stoped the news helps promote the wars open your eyes and you will see all the freedom that you ones had is gone enless you are filthy rich.

  2. "Let us now, while we are yet strong, bring our men home, every man jack of them. The Vietcong fight fiercely and tenaciously because it is their land and we are foreigners intervening in their civil war. If we must fight, let us fight in defense of our homeland and our own hemisphere."

    – WWII veteran physician/U.S Congressman Tim Lee Carter, R-KY August 1967

    "No, Mr. President, we are not winning the war." – TLC to LBJ

  3. The sad truth is that as long as there is no draft and no country with nuclear weapons is attacked, Washington can do whatever it wants.

  4. The reason why Ike sent 'advisers' into Vietnam was because the State Department told him Ho Chi Minh was likely to win the all-country elections scheduled for 1956. It was a Cold War article of faith that 'no commie government ever won power in fair and free elections'. Ho was a Vietnamese nationalist as much as a marxist, but America was willing to divide the country and support a southern government that never had any sort of elected legitimacy to forestall the falsification of its maxim.

    This imperialistic hubris– the USA as successor to the defeated French in Indochina– was rewarded by the beginning of the decline and fall of the USA itself. Every 'liberal' and 'conservative' president from JFK through LBJ to Nixon felt he had to save face by stepping up the persecution of the Vietnamese, but Gen. Giap and the Cong whipped the military industrial complexl. God is not mocked, and hypocrites who preach Freedom and Democracy for the world while exploiting, invading, occupying, subverting and poisoning it do not escape His mockery for ever.

  5. tenaciously because it is their land and we are foreigners intervening in their civil war. If we must fight, let us fight in defense of our homeland and our own hemisphere."

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