Everyone thinks gundam is anti war yet it’s one of the most pro war franchises I’ve ever seen. Like how the starship troopers movie was trying to make a big joke out of the book and yet ended up one of the best motivating movie that ever marine I know watches it all the time.
Rivialries may make for good tv and anime but it’s not real war, it’s something used by movies and tv to make war seem cool, that people can personally use war as the conduit for personal gain(love, revenge) but it’s all fake
The only thing that’s real in war is survival, living and making sure you and your friends stay alive. That’s it. Gundam is prowar. Sorry.
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In another development in the Middle East, it was reported that Britain and the United Arab Republic had decided to restore diplomatic relations, broken in 1965. They are expected to exchange ambassadors before the end of the year. Britain’s primary motive, it was said, was to put herself in a position to persuade President Nasser to reopen the Suez Canal.
An archeology professor in Jerusalem has announced the discovery of another Dead Sea scroll, a 26-foot parchment said to be the longest ever uncovered. The scroll was said to have been written sometime between the second half of the first century B.C. and the beginning of the first century A.D.
Antiwar demonstrators ended their protests at the Pentagon after nearly 600 arrests. Federal marshals arrested about 175 persons today, minutes after the midnight deadline. Yesterday, President Johnson and his family left the White House briefly to attend church services.
Washington is a city accustomed to demonstrations and disorders, but the events over the weekend appeared to leave everybody concerned—Government officials, militant young activists and moderate young students—with a sense of brooding and lack of accomplishment, James Reston writes in discussing the antiwar protest.
In the New York metropolitan area, thousands of persons marched in the Bronx, in Brooklyn and in suburban areas to show their support for the men fighting in Vietnam. Parades, speeches and a vigil in Manhattan’s Battery Park marked the occasion, and thousands of motorists continued to drive with their headlights turned on to indicate their support.
During an interview at his headquarters in Norfolk, Va., Vice Adm. William E. Ellis, chief of staff of the Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, disclosed that the Soviet Union was building its first aircraft carrier. The new carrier was believed to be designed to launch helicopters rather than jets. Admiral Ellis interpreted the building of the major warship as evidence that the Russians, previously concerned mainly with defense, were now considering extending Soviet military power.
Thousands of demonstrators stormed the Pentagon after a calm rally at the Lincoln Memorial and a march across the Potomac by some 50,000 persons opposing the war in Vietnam. The demonstrators twice breached security lines of Deputy Federal Marshals backed up by soldiers with bayonet-tipped rifles, but were quickly driven back with rifle butts and nightsticks. Six persons succeeded in entering a side door of the Pentagon, but were immediately dragged out. There was no report of serious injuries, but the Pentagon steps were spattered with blood. Several persons were arrested, including Norman Mailer, the novelist, and John Boyles, Episcopal chaplain at Yale University.
Other demonstrations were held in cities around the world, including London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris and Tokyo.
Here in New York, almost 1,000 persons attended the start of a 31-hour vigil at Battery Park to support American soldiers in Vietnam. The crowd included war veterans and draft-age youths.
One of the two largest ships in the Israeli Navy, the 2,500-ton destroyer Elath, was sunk by Egyptian missiles yesterday off the northern coast of Sinai. The sinking, the most serious naval incident since the six-day war in June, marked the first use of missiles in the Arab-Israeli struggle.
The North Vietnamese Defense Minister, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, ruled out any form of compromise with the United States in the Vietnam war. In an article in a Soviet publication, he said that American bombing attacks would never break the will of Hanoi to help the Vietcong achieve victory'. He declared the Communists were fighting not only to liberate South Vietnam but also to defend North Vietnam as the advance socialist outpost in Southeast Asia.
Survey Finds Discontent: Survey of Officeholders Finds Mounting Criticism of the War in Vietnam Among Their Constituents
uncredited writer, The New York Times, 8 October 1967
WASHINGTON — Public support for the Administration’s conduct of the war in Vietnam has declined measurably in recent weeks, with increased sentiment for less military action and more negotiation.
This is the conclusion from a survey of Governors and Congressmen who were asked by The New York Times to gauge any shift in opinion on the Vietnam issue among their constituents.
More than two-thirds of the public officials replying to the questions reported rising criticism of the war as it is now being prosecuted, some of it from people who favor further intensification but the preponderance from those who want a more limited commitment or an end to the conflict.
The survey was taken against a background of mounting American commitment in Vietnam. That commitment has increased United States forces there by 150,000 troops in the last year, to a total of 500,000. Total American casualties now exceed 100,000, including 13,643 dead—many of them in the last six months. The defense budget has risen to the neighborhood of $70-billion a year, and the budget’s impact on the economy has caused President Johnson to request a 10 per cent surcharge on the income tax, which Congress is resisting.
Discouragement Found
Many of the replies to the Times survey reflected discouragement that this investment of men and money did not seem to be achieving visible progress rather than any basic quarrel with the aims of the investment
The survey indicated the seriousness of the political problem Vietnam poses for the Democratic party’s national ticket a year before President Johnson will seek re-election to a second full term.
Unless the public sentiment shown by the survey changes materially in 1968, Mr. Johnson will clearly be running in the face of criticism from two directions: those who think his policy is too belligerent and those who do not think it is belligerent enough. Dwindling support can be expected between these extremes.
All 50 Governors, 100 Senators and 433 Representatives were asked if there had been any change in sentiment on the war.
Anonymity Option
The officials were given the option of responding anonymously. Replies were received from 33 Governors, 64 Senators and 146 Representatives.
While reporting a marked shift in public reaction, few of the officials questioned said that they had changed their views on Vietnam. Of 243 interviewed, only 40 said that they had switched, 30 of them to a stronger peace posture and 10 to insistence on further intensification.
None of the men who reported shifts in their personal positions on the war were major political figures, with the exception of Senator Thruston B. Morton, Republican of Kentucky, the former Republican national chairman, who has moved from supporting the President to advocating disengagement.
A significant number of those interviewed reported a discernible polarization of Vietnam sentiment, with the large middle group that formerly accepted the war tending to split into two vocal critical factions, one advocating every possible peace effort and the other an all-out offensive for victory.
Administration officials said they had been receiving similar reports of growing concern over the war. Cabinet officers, who report regularly to President Johnson on findings in their travels, have told him that there is growing disgrun-tlement about Vietnam.
Some of these officials attribute the decline in support for the President to a lack of progress in the war, to weariness and disillusionment, to resentment because the war prevents important domestic spending and to unhappiness over the proposed 10 per cent tax surcharge.
There was no indication, however, that these Cabinet officers were . moving away from strong support of the President’s policies.
Three of the five leading Republican Presidential possibilities responded to the survey. Gov. George Romney of Michigan and Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois provided direct statements, and the views of Gov. Ronald Reagan of California were described by aides.
Governor Rockefeller of New York did not respond. There have been recent reports that he is preparing to move away from his long-held position of full support for President Johnson’s Vietnam policies.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon was not included in the survey, which was restricted to current officeholders.
‘Never a Popular War’
Senator Percy said the Southeast Asian conflict “has never been a popular war, but it has never been as unpopular as it is today.’’ He said he was particularly disturbed by the decision to bomb so close to China because “I do not believe the risks are worth the possible gain.”
Governor Romney said he believed that "people are taking a more searching look at Vietnam than ever before,” citing the increasing number of Republicans like Senator Morton who are speaking out against Administration policy.
According to aides, Governor Reagan believes military prosecution of the war should be pushed more strongly, with more military and less civilian control.
A typical comment on the erosion of the formerly large bloc of opinion in general support of the President came from Representative Donald M. Fraser, a Minnesota Democrat.
“In recent months there has been a noticeable polarization of views in my district.” he said.
“Fewer and fewer people seem to support the Administration's policy. The mood appears increasingly to be one of ‘win or get out.’ But even the ‘win’ outlook seems to be losing supporters in favor of more determined efforts to get out.”
The public officials that responded to the survey were about 3-to-2 Democratic. Of the 243, 145 identified themselves as general supporters of the President and 52 as clear-
cut critics, with the remaining 44 somewhere in the middle.
Their findings fell into the following categories:
69 of the officials did not detect any recent weakening of support for the war.
64 reported broad general opposition.
80 discerned a strong sentiment for negotiation or withdrawal.
30 reported criticism that military action had been too limited to win.
The public opinion polls also indicate a growing lack of confidence in the way President Johnson is handling the war; His most recent approval rating was 33 per cent in the Gallup Poll and 31 in the Harris Poll.
The word that appeared most often in explanations of declining Vietnam support was “frustration,” a combination of shame that American military might was unavailing, a feeling of helplessness to affect events and a growing conviction that the President had not been entirely frank about the) war.
“At the White House they gave a group of us Governors a thousand reasons why they couldn’t bomb Haiphong Harbor," Gov. David E. Cargo of New Mexico, a Republican, recalled.
“Yet four days later it was done. I just about died when I heard that.”
A number of the Congressmen reported a kind of merger between the hawks and doves in their districts, the hawks arguing the “win or get out” thesis but beginning to recognize that the first alternative appeared increasingly unachievable.
The single specific factor most often cited as a basis for the shift of opinion against the war was the growing casualty list. This appears to be particularly true in the smaller states and communities where combat fatalities have more personal impact.
"I fly the flag at half-mast for all the soldiers whenever they’re buried here,” Gov. Tim Babcock of Montana observed. "I see it down the pole quite a bit. Of course, this is not encouraging at all: the longer it goes, the more discouraging it becomes.”
Both Senators and Representatives said they believed that President Johnson’s request for a tax increase had crystallized sentiment against the war, although as the men who must vote such an increase, they are probably more conscious of such resistance than the Governors.
Representative William F. Ryan, Democrat of Manhattan, summed up the frustration complaint as follows:
“Everyone is frustrated. The ‘why not win’ group is frustrated by failure to achieve an easy and immediate victory. Those who have generally tended to support the Administration’s policy are frustrated by the complicated nature of the war and its seeming endlessness.
“Those who have consistently opposed the war, frustrated and angry, now feel that protests and demonstrations have had little or no effect and see the only recourse to be the defeat of President Johnson."
Some of the Congressmen said that they believed the shift in sentiment against the war began last spring, when the American troop commitment was stepped up again and control of the pacification program was largely shifted to American personnel.
Party affiliation did not seem to have any direct correlation with reports of growing opposition to the war. Of the House members interviewed, about a third of both the Democrats and Republicans reported such sentiment.
Pro-War ‘Z-Banners’ Disappear in Some Russian Cities
Pro-War ‘Z-Banners’ Disappear in Some Russian Cities
Local authorities in cities across Russia have removed banners with the letter “Z” – a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – in recent days as the war appears to enter a new phase of bloody fighting and limited territorial gains in eastern Ukraine.
The head of the A Just Russia political party, Sergei Mironov, said earlier this week that Moscow city inspectors ordered him to take…
