Another Tactical and Strategic Blunder

Ed Fitzgerald captures my frustration perfectly with observations about yesterday’s antiwar protest in Washington.

“The Bush Administration is on the ropes, it’s reeling from the pain of a thousand cuts, the last thing we would want to do is to give them some encouragement to believe that perhaps their position is somewhat more tenable than it appears. At this juncture, they don’t have the people on their side, all the polls show that, but looking at Saturday’s feeble, badly-conceived march, all they could possibly feel is encouraged, because all they saw there were the nutjobs and wackos they expected to see.

…I think perhaps a large part of the problem is that people don’t think hard enough about what they want to achieve with their actions, and instead focus on what they feel they need to do. The resulting action, therefore, becomes primarily about people feeling good about themselves.”

(unfutz)