Subject: Re: Hitch loves you

[Max B. Sawicky]

> > I think the mindless sloganeering
> > sustituting for concrete analysis of the present sitution after S11 was
one
> > of the most depressing things I have experienced in years.  We lost the
> > debate on the war and even more on the peace, because the public
analysis of
> > the "peace movement" was so disconnected from the reality experienced by
the
> > general population that they tuned it out.

This is bizarre to the nth degree. There never _was_ any debate to win
or lose . . .

mbs: without doubt, the military mission was going to happen.
What might have gone differently is that the peace movement
might have made a more credible case and become better positioned
to affect future, less plausible interventions.