People Power and Fascist Thugs

Activism is based on the nice way people demonstrating peacefully may overthrow an unpopular regime. There are several caveats, however, for the would-be overthrowers, as explained by Strategy Page . One is that you have to get a huge number of people to join you. The AP may puff the story with headlines like "Global Protests Mark Iraq War Anniversary," but you need photos taken will a wide lens to prove it. The other is that you may get killed, as was demonstrated by the popular uprising at Tiananmen Square. Totalitarian states are tough to bring down as long as they have soldiers willing to fire on unarmed civilians.

Whether we admit it or not, we're already at war with Iran, but we're fighting them in Iraq. This is why all this moaning about Iraq being a civil war and a failure is crap. They presume that we will get bored and unhappy with the number of casualties and quit. If we do that, we might as well give them some nuke-tipped missiles, because we're the only ones until now who've told them no, and if we succumb to the steady beat of the quagmire choir in this country,
we lose all credibility around the world. Would you bet your country's future on the U.S. after that? Me, neither.