Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War : The Movement to Stop the War on Terror.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varon, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

An original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror--the greatest case of "we told you so" in modern political history. Just after 9/11, President George W.Bush climbed the rubble where the World Trade Center had stood.

Contents:

"Reconciliation, not revenge": the antiwar response to 9/11

"The way to prevent more deaths is not to kill more people": arguing the war in Afghanistan

"The dominant frame is war": the birth of the antiwar movement

"Not in our name": from the war in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq

Uniting for peace and justice

"The world says no to war": a day of global protest

"To bomb this site would be a war crime": from "stop the war" to shock and awe

"Are we protesting the war or the occupation?": the US war in Iraq

From "Bring 'em on" to "Bring them home": the unraveling of the Iraq war

"Sorry, everybody, we tried": the antiwar movement and the reelection of George W. Bush

"REAL support for the troops": the antiwar movement and military dissent

"Fervent calls for peace": the turning of the Iraq war

"The end of an error" and endless war

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-226-82769-0

OCLC:

1541845575