The groundswell begins

West Point Grads Against the War

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
– General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac....

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
– George Orwell