[Peace-discuss] Appeal from Antiwar.com

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Has the Antiwar Movement Lost its voice?

As President Obama sends 20,000 more combat troops to Afghanistan and threatens 
to invade Pakistan, a strange silence hangs over the remains of the antiwar 
movement.

The massive antiwar marches that were a feature of the Bush years are a thing of 
the past, and those ostensibly antiwar organizations that did so much to agitate 
against the Iraq war have now fallen into line behind their commander in chief, 
awaiting orders.

MoveOn.org has refused to make any public statement about Obama's alarming 
Af-Pak escalation. VoteVets, which was in the front lines of the antiwar 
struggle a few years back, is reduced to cheering Obama's every move.

Another Democratic Party front masquerading as a peace group, Americans United 
for Change, declined to comment on the war plans of the new administration. This 
astroturf organization, you'll recall, ran $600,000 worth of television ads in 
the summer of 2007 – zeroing in on congressional districts with Republican 
incumbents.

These partisan phonies don't represent the real antiwar movement, of course. 
They used popular opposition to the Iraq war to ride into power, and now they're 
launching their own nation-building war of "liberation" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The real antiwar movement is right here, on this Web site, all day, every day. 
Our commentators span the political spectrum, but our reportage focuses like a 
laser on the single most important issue facing mankind: the issue of war and 
peace. We have consistently voiced our opposition to America's foreign policy of 
global intervention through three presidents – and you, our readers and 
supporters, have stood by us through all their cruel and futile wars, from 
Kosovo to Iraq to Af-Pak. Now we are asking you to help us again, at a time when 
all but a few antiwar voices have gone silent.

Antiwar.com: now more than ever.

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