mike larkin wrote:
>
> http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/34332/
>
> "....It is high time for the anti-war movement to take
> a collective look in the mirror, and be honest about
> what they see. A poorly organized, chaotic, and indeed
> often anarchic conglomeration of egos, pet projects
> and idealism that barely constitutes a "movement," let
> alone a winning cause.
What a jackass. He describes the anti-war movement as though it were a single person who is being bad. What in the hell else than what he describes has any movement in history not been at _most_ points in its history -- including the American and French Revolutions, the anti-slavery movement, the Women's Suffrage movement, most union drives, the Civil Rights Movement. And not a single one of them was ever helped by this sort of carping from the sidelines. Criticism has to be internal to be of any use whatever. Whine Whine Whine. The whiners should simply go out in their own community and create another grouplet according to _their_ principles.
Carrol