It looked inspiring on CNN, which covered a lot of it (with correspondent Maria Hinojosa in the streets of my beloved NYC -- was on a panel with her at Columbia discussing the 1990 Nicaraguan elections, great person), and covered the demos worldwide, including one in LA led by the likes of Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, Angelica Huston, and Alfre Woodard. The resistance to this Gulf War far outweighs what I was actively part of in '90-91. Amazing. Yet I still feel a bit empty all the same.
Saddam is not the Sandinistas, nor Salvadoran trade unionists. He is Noriega times ten. It used to be that the peace movement, or the movement against US imperialism, had a stake in any potential fight. Apart from noises made on behalf of the Iraqi people (and not all Iraqi people are opposed to Bush toppling Saddam), there really isn't something even remotely positive for anti-interventionists to grab onto. I mean, no war on Iraq? Okay. But what instead?
DP