Successes of the antiwar movement? (Re: [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Nathan:
> to the uncommitted.  And it was precisely that middle 40% of 
> the population that was lost during the public debate over 
> the last few months.
> 
> That was a failure by the antiwar movement.  You may think it 
> was inevitable due to the power of the opposition. I don't.
> 

That assumes that the said 40% was winnable by the anti-war movement,
had it used a diferent strategy.  I doubt that assumption.  I am yet
find any historical evidence of a peace movement's ever being able to
turn any significant part of the public against the war in the initial
stages of the conflict (later stateges are a different story).
Collective violence is like porn - few men can resist it.

Wojtek