Junto Boys

THE BIG RALLY














Tell me that Cindy Sheehan doesn't look like Lucy Van Pelt from Peanuts posing for the cover of "Happiness is a Warm . . . Shakedown Artist."

I love the sign in the background "WORST PRESIDENT EVER" which would be news to the likes of James Buchanan who maybe could have just tried a little to prevent a bigger war than the one we're in now.

We saw a lot of these same kind of people marching before the Republican convention in 2004. In both places we saw Che signs and other communist propaganda, as well as the usual hate-Bush stuff. You have to give them credit for taking the time what with College Football and the penant race on TV.

What's troubling is how so many people think that the act of doing nothing is a solution to the realities of the world. The media romanticizes the Vietnam protests without ever mentioning the million or so South Vietnamese that were wholesale butchered once we listened to the hippies and jumped ship.

Now while the people who protest may be sincere, the groups funding the protest are worrisome says Christopher Hitchens.

To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh.