Read the rest. Any of you who marched in the huge yet futile anti-war protests pre-mbt shoes invasion will identify with Taibbi’s description of the various protester MO’s and costumes and the reality of being in a crowd of hundreds of thousand people making a statement that is totally ignored. I know libertarians debated whether it was even counterproductive to march with a bunch of fruitloops and commies and people carrying banners for a variety of pet causes that had nothing to do with opposition to the war. If nothing else, protests have to be focussed to have any effect. It would be interesting to see how many people would have the discipline to turn out to protest in uniform.
At Commondreams, Ira Chernus explains how the ’60s prepared us to live with the fact that we will never, ever know for sure who was behind the 9/11 attacks. Whoops, I had always thought the counterculture’s primary message was never, ever eat fried food.
Are we to blame the Saudis, the Israelis or the NIKE SHOXies? Heather Wokusch warns it could be decades before the truth is finally revealed.
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