What did the Anti-War Movement Lead To?

[Rakesh Bhandari]

In a Nation review of a recent collection of Adorno's socio-political
essays, the philosopher is quoted as critical of the anti-war movement
because it was not bothered by the use of what he called Chinese methods
of torture by the Vietcong. It seems that Adorno dismissed the whole
anti-war movement as bourgeois. The reviewer does not seem to be bothered
by how cruel and pathetic Adorno's dismissal of the anti-war movement was.
Even if one had only hatred for the  Hanoi Stalinists,the anti war
movement was necessary to stop the  US bombing as it  laid waste to
hundreds of thousands of people (not all of them practioners of Chinese 
water torture) and destroyed the country for generations.
Doug might be impressed by Adorno's skepticism of the demand that theory
must have direct political implications, but to compare the juvenille
demand to elicit immediately  the  political consequence of a theory to
the Gestapo's demand for papers is itself a juvenille debating tactic. If
this is what dialectical thinking leads to, I'd rather learn about
Bertrand Russel who seems to have organized a tribunal against the US
military for its destruction of Vietnam. 
Best,
Rakesh