-I think the burden is on the neocon dems, or whoever, to show that the U.S. -is breaking with a policy of 50 years standing in the Middle East (arming, -installing and coddling compliant dictators) and to prove it with more than -rhetoric.
No-- since the American people have voted to give those folks the power to invade, the burden is on the opposition whether you like it or not.
I think some left folks feel that being right is enough, so dealing with bad convincing arguments are beneath them.
It is exactly the swing pro-war Dems and moderate Repubicans who the antiwar movement has to convince. Some of it can be done based on self-interest and how stupid this war is, but some has to be combatting the idealistic hopes that Hitch touches on that the neoconservatives are promoting.
-- Nathan Newman