The Antiwar Peace Movement Needs a Restart

"In his first year President Obama broke several war-making records of President George W. Bush. He passed the largest military budget in US history, the largest one-year war supplementals and fired the most drone attacks on the most countries. He began 2010 asking for another $30 billion war supplemental and with the White House indicating that the next military budget will be $708 billion, breaking Obama's previous record.

"While some commentators on MSNBC hailed Obama as the peace candidate, he has done more for war in a shorter time than many other commanders in chief. US attacks on other countries are not challenged in any serious way even if they result in consistent loss of innocent civilian life. It is not healthy for American democracy to allow unquestioned militarism and put war budgets on a path of automatic growth despite the US spending as much as the rest of the world combined on weapons and war.
Antiwar opposition has failed and needs to begin anew."