Antiwar Voices

When was the last time you've seen an "antiwar" voice in the main stream media? If not directly "antiwar," what about anti-interventionists? It seems that you have to go out of your way to find media that expresses a more "antiwar" bias.

I think the main point is that since the end of WWII, the US has become the "world police." Before WWII, the US was fairly isolationist, it joined both WWI and WWII a few years after both started. WWII solidified the US as a "world power." This caused society to shift in their views, simply making the antiwar viewpoint much less common. The US became involved in many wars since then, such as the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Gulf Wars, and a few other wars. These wars and other US interventions have made it “counter-culture” to be against war.

One news website, The American Conservative, is a Right-leaning news organization, whose authors mainly oppose American interventionism. The "About Us" section states that "The American Conservative...embraces realism and restraint in foreign affairs based on America’s vital national interests." They aren't "antiwar" per se, they just believe that the US should back down from being the "world police" and focus on US national interests first. One such contributor to the website is actually Republican senator Rand Paul, who is, by far, one the most Libertarian-leaning conservatives in congress. It seems that these websites give more "outliers" opinions a platform for their ideologies and since they are "outliers" the news organizations are simply less popular than main stream media, such Fox News or CNN. This makes it so that if you want an anti-war leaning viewpoint, you have to actively seek them out, as being isolationist is simply no longer a popular viewpoint.

 

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