This is a response to the subject line, not to anything in the post. Has the anti-war movment failed? It has not stopped the war -- but neither has any anti-war movement in modern history stopped a war (unless you consider the Bolsheviks an anti-war movement).
The fundamental political fact of the last 60 years has been the economic, political, social, cultural, military strength of the capitalist class in all of the imperialist centers. It is sheer voluntarism to suggest that, against the background, the anti-war movement should have "succeeded." Probably we could have done better -- that is a banal truism for almost any human activity. But the measure of our achievement is in the relative number of people actively engaged in left organizing today in comparison to the 1990s. I think we've done pretty well. And the present mass disillusonment with the war won't stop it either, but it surely doesn't help the Warriors in D.C., and the active anti-war movement has certainly been a factor in that disillusionment, though not the major factor. Carrol
