As I was watching the news about local preparations for the protests in NYC today, I couldn't help but think they've got it all wrong.
The protests today would be infinitely more practical and effective if they were singularly and personal targeted at Bush.
As I was watching the news about local preparations for the protests in NYC today, I couldn't help but think they've got it all wrong.
The protests today would be infinitely more practical and effective if they were singularly and personal targeted at Bush. 10,000 people in Union Square (or however many turn out) protesting war is old news and it doesn't do much frankly. Because the message is No War, it gets marginalized.
Sure we're all against war. We're also anti-rape, anti-child porn. There really aren't that many American's are pro-war, it's just that there are a lot of us who are willing to do the calculus and not make war the least attractive option. I disagree with this math, but frankly it's politically naive to think the average Republican who backs pre-emptive war does it because they are pro-war.
(Aside: please lose the "End War, End Racism" banners. Again, no one's really pro-racism anywhere but on the fringe. It's the equivalent of hoisting an "End War, Save the Whales" banner--they're all good causes but you're outing yourself as a tinfoil behatted cause person and people are going to marginalize your entirely valid positions because they're intermingled.)
Moreover, I think this thing stinks to high hell and back--but just bringing the troops home now is not practical. As a country we wrong-headedly made a massive mess over there, and it's our duty to at least see it through to make things better than when we got there. I'd love to see other nations welcomed into this effort, I'd love to see them pitching in. But just abandoning things as a failed experiment now is unfortunately not a realistic option.
Make the protests about Bush. 10,000 people ferveently waving Impeach Bush banners in Union Square--now that's a powerful message, it's also well-focused on the problem. The problem isn't truly war, the problem is the Chimp.