What are the links between the military resistance and the anti-war movement?
When you look at the GI resistance movement you’re not looking at a highly developed theory of struggle against imperialist domination. You’re looking at a more basic analysis in terms of the human cost of the war. You’re looking at someone who has a very personal pain, someone who was lied to by someone they trusted. Someone who joined the military because they were looking for a better life and in the pursuit of that he or she ends up halfway across the world spreading destruction, death and oppression. So there’s a significant difference in how these people are going to resist to the point where they say they’re not going to fight this war. But it’s still a resistance, it’s still anti-war and we have to rescue that and work with it. What message do you have for warmongers like Bush and Howard in terms of your experience of the already existing GI resistance? They’ll see what happens. There’s a very powerful movement growing. It’s young and it’s small right now but it’s not going to
