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Entry: Come Home, Conservatives! -- to the Antiwar Conservative Movement Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/come_home_conservatives_the_antiwar_conservative_movement#25439 Post contents: Marie, Most Americans were against involvement in WWII, especially pre the much hoped for attack which eventually occurred at Pearl Harbor). Factions of the right wing were amongst the most enthusiastic opponents of WWII involvement at the time. Those schooled by post-war government propaganda and without an understanding of the various interests that pushed the US into WWII assume going to war was a righteous duty, while many independent intellectuals at the time saw little benefit and great risk. It was propaganda, fervor, revenge , glory and excitement, (when not conscripted slavery) rather than great sympathies for any Europeans or realistic concerns about US safety that swayed the public into war. Hardly the motivations to which 'duty' ought to be assigned. Sent at: 2008 07 04