Re: Idea of Rapid Withdrawal from Iraq Fast Receding

[Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not at all convinced that we aren't on the verge of something of a
cascade in terms of popular responses.

I teach in an extremely conservative area and a lot of my jokes make people
nervous, but almost all of them laugh.  Bush and the Iraq War as unpopular
as Vietnam ever was.  That there is no draft and no tradition of mass
protest moderates the intensity of the reaction, but it's there.

I don't think the focus has shifted to communities of color because there
really isn't a focus for the movement yet.  The mobilizations last spring
were very impressive, but what's become of them?  What has the Left tried to
do to sustain such actions?  To keep it in the streets, etc.

ML