Support Their Troops?

July 12, 2007 | This article appeared in the July 30, 2007 edition of The Nation.

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If the American people are largely against the war, what's the matter with the antiwar movement? The answer lies with what has happened over the years to the American left.

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Alexander Cockburn

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