What's the content of "education," though?
A great disparity in American sentiments -- (now finally!) against the Iraq War but solidly behind the Iran sanctions -- indicates that education provided by anti-war activists, organizers, and intellectuals either have been off the mark or have not spread wide enough or have not sunk deep enough (in all likelihood all three at the same time, different currents of anti-war organizing committing different errors).
It seems to me that a majority of American anti-war sentiments are held by those who turned against the Iraq War because of the length of the war, a higher-than-expected casualty of US troops, and the picture of chaos (Washington's inability to get oil, power, and other productions up in Iraq; complex, fractured politics of Iraqis; mounting casualties of what appears to be sectarian violence, etc.). In short, many Americans are reacting against the contingent consequences of the Iraq War in particular, not against the reasons why Washington would do what it did (and will) in Iraq, Iran, and beyond.
It must be also said that a lot of liberal anti-warriors have propagated the sort of worldview that is bound to feed a monumentally silly "national security" panic like the Dubai Port World rigmarole (which helped the Democrats to sweep the NSA wiretapping question under the rug).
I've heard a number of anti-war activists in the USA say that we ought to concentrate on the Iraq War and that alone, in the interest of mobilizing the widest possible variety of Americans against the war. I believe that such a narrow educational focus did no service to Americans -- nor did it put many Americans in the streets either.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>