The Vanishing Anti-War Left

[docilelion]

Barack Obama ran for president as the last of the red-hot pacifists, so it might have sounded preposterous to predict that after a few security briefings at the White House, President Obama would follow in the same policy footsteps of horrid warmonger George Bush, with his anti-terrorist wars and strategies.

So where is the anti-war movement now?

“What anti-war movement?” former Congressman Dennis Kucinich asked when called for comment last week. Medea Benjamin of the radical group Code Pink agreed: “the antiwar movement is a shadow of its former self under the Bush years.” Cindy Sheehan quipped that “The ‘anti-war left’ was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the ‘anti-Republican War’ movement.”

The “Wonkblog” of The Washington Post ran an article (online only, not in the newspaper) headlined “How Obama demobilized the antiwar movement.” As much as our “objective” media lamely tried to portray the peaceniks mobilizing in the streets against Team Bush as nonpartisan and non-ideological, the truth is the movement collapsed as soon as the Democrats tasted power.

newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2013/09/03/bozell-column-vanishing-anti-war-left#ixzz2dwHGMmgD

[MaggieD]

The "anti-war left" never vanished, we're still here. Our voices are being muffled because now we are fighting members of our own party as well as the conservative warmongers on the right. We face more enemies with one of our own in office now. We are also fewer in numbers, for the reasons you stated, but that doesn't mean we all threw our principles out the window.

[docilelion]

Mar 31, 2014 12:29:33 GMT MaggieD said:

The "anti-war left" never vanished, we're still here. Our voices are being muffled because now we are fighting members of our own party as well as the conservative warmongers on the right. We face more enemies with one of our own in office now. We are also fewer in numbers, for the reasons you stated, but that doesn't mean we all threw our principles out the window.

So you've not only turned your back on America, but now you've turned your back on your own party. Nice...