Are We Betraying Ourselves?

Mary Riddell of The Observer comments on the failure of the anti-war movement (snippet):

Those of us who opposed the war can claim that we were more right than we thought. There were no WMDs, no nuclear programme, no legal case and no link with al-Qaeda, until Bush and Blair invited them along. And yet the anti-war movement, whatever its stake on prescience, has proved a depressingly negative force, too. The populist spirit that politicised a generation and illuminated mass marches has curdled into pessimism and posturing. It may be excessive to hope that a peace movement can save a single Iraqi life. But it might show better that it mourned, or even noticed.