Darwin wrote:
] quoted:
] ===
]
] Easy to blame the war on those who love war; I blame it also
] on those who opposed it. They should have done a better job –
] produced arguments that smacked less of ancient ideology,
] found subtler people to express them, put language to better
] use than sloganising, sought the support of less obviously
] biased or hysterical groups, kept one issue separate from
] another, not turned the cause of peace into a ragbag of
] associated or not-at-all associated grievances, jeered less,
] cheered less, put their minds, every inch of the way, to the
] fears no less than the ambitions that fuelled the war, and why
] others, who were not all Bush's poodles, did not always think
] as they did.

I agree. And I think the reason why most of the anti-war demonstrations have been nothing more than a big pot bake off have been that few of us really understand what the hell we're doing.

See my post at
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid6103/
because I finally feel like I understand it.

RE: If you want peace, preach to the unconverted - Howard Jacobson - from Argument