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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (65235)6/20/2005 12:45:59 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
TobagoJack Re: "public Support for Iraq" Here where I live every other car has a "support out troops" yellow ribbon and beyond that I think the public is not very concerned about the war. When the linkage is made between public support and foreign war is made a person naturally thinks about the Vietnam War, that being a case where a falling off of public support contributed to a rout. That won't happen this time, at least not in the same way or for the same reason.

With Vietnam many years before the end the major media had turned totally against the war and network TV kept up a steady stream of "doom and gloom" about the war year after year. The war party had no means to tell their side of the story, other than maybe the editorial pages of rural newspapers. The anti-war party had all the TV news and the big city papers with which to present their story. And back then, that about all the media there was, at least to which the average person was exposed.

Now you have talk radio which is very popular and is firmly in the possession of the war party. The war party has a majority eyeballs count on cable and satellite TV news programs. Then there is the internet. Those opposed to the war may still have an edge in broadcast TV but due to the presence of the OTHER news sources, they have to be much more careful to disguise their biases (the sacking of Dan Rather is an example). And there is the internet and blogosphere where the war party at least has parity.

Then there is the peace and order situation. With Vietnam the anti-war party could have a riot or a disruptive "demonstration" any time they could raise a crowd. Years and years of this had begun to wear on the public. That won't happen this time. This time if you inconvenience and disrupt the public you will go to jail and pay for every penny of damage caused by the protest, both real and imaginary. There won't be any "peace riots"
Slagle
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