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Obsolete, as long as Democrats are in charge:

…I assume that RIGHTNETWORK readers are at least of average intelligence, but for any members of Code Pink or International ANSWER who might have stumbled over here by accident, allow me to dumb it down: the antiwar movement is faltering because it was never an antiwar movement to begin with. It was an anti-Bush, anti-Republican movement, and now that neither of those entities is running things right now it is no longer necessary to keep it going. It won’t be eliminated, of course: after all, the way things are going the Republicans are primed to take power again within in the next two or three election cycles. Once that happens, the Democrats will then revitalize whatever withered cores still remain in the antiwar groups, and then use them to attack Republicans—until the Republicans are out of power once more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

It’s hard to tell who to be more contemptuous of in that uneasy liberal-left alliance: establishment Democrats, for being such cynical opportunists, or the antiwar activists, for being such pitiful lackeys…

Democrats discovered a love for the anti-war movement on January 20th, 1969 – the day Richard Nixon was sworn in, with the Vietnam war still in full force. Up to that point, no need for the anti-war movement – might hurt Democrats. Once a Republican was in office – wow, really need that anti-war movement!

To keep going a bit with my theme from Cutting Through the Nonsense Between Islam and the West, here we have yet another example of the con job of modern times. Anyone who thinks about war realizes that it is a complex event which arises because an acute difference has developed between two or more peoples – with luck and good will, such conflicts can be defused short of actual shooting war, but some times luck is elsewhere and good will is lacking, and so war commences. Once the war starts, thinking people start trying to understand what it is about and develope means to bring it to a swift and, for their side, successful conclusion. On the other hand, there are those who are just trying to put one over on people in order to gain power and wealth for themselves…enter the Democrats and the dupes who man the anti-war movement.

Those who think try to prevent a war from starting; once a war starts, those who think work on winning it. Those who are indifferent to everything but their own position and wealth ignore impending war clouds – and if they are not in charge when the war starts, they immediately start angling for themselves. This has a long history in the United States – starting with the Copperheads during the Civil War (mostly Democrats, by the way). For the Copperheads, the fate of the Union and the plight of the slaves was irrelevant – all that mattered was securing power for themselves…it wouldn’t have mattered to them if they attained power in a truncated Union while millions of Americans continued to languish in slavery – all that mattered was personal wealth and power.

So, rather than do the patriotic thing and help work out ways to victory, they started picking apart war policy and ascribing base motives to those who were trying to win the war. They accused those fighting the war of various crimes from brutality to the enemy to the destruction of civil liberties at home (sound familiar?). They sought to undermine the war effort knowing that defeat in the field would lend credence to their expressed views about the war. They favored coddling the enemy and set impossible, ever receding standards for the people trying to win the war. All of this was duplicated during the latter part of the Vietnam war, and all through the Bush Administration. It was a con then, it is a con now – though one temporarily moribund because the people who ran the scheme are currently ensconced in power and thus don’t need it.

Ever and anon we are plagued with these people – the people who want power and wealth but don’t want to actually work for it. From relatively harmless crooks like Bernie Madoff to the most vile, criminal murderers like Josef Stalin, the theme remains the same – cook up a problem, relentlessly lie about what is happening, use resultant confusion to gain the advantage.

We’ll see the anti-war movement again – because anyone who would actually join the movement is easily duped, and as soon as Republicans are in charge of government there will be Democrats who will want to pull a fast one. As long as there are knaves to vend, there will be fools to swallow – but we, on our side, can limit the damage.

If we will resolutely state the truth and cease to play their game (which is, after all, a rigged game designed to ensure they win), then we can marginalize both the hucksters and their dupes.