ANDREW SULLIVAN has a lot of interesting observations on the war, the antiwar protests, and the media.
He's right about the scarcity of protesters this weekend. I didn't see any. The InstaWife saw a few, but they didn't interfere with getting around the Mall. According to the New York Times there were "more than 10,000." Not much of a crowd, even if you assume the Times estimate is on the low side, and each protest seems smaller.
But it's not just their numbers that are hollow -- it's their ideas. Having failed miserably to prevent the war, they're now calling for an "immediate withdrawal" from Iraq. That's a course of action that (as even antiwar folks like Howard Dean have noted) would surely be disastrous for the Iraqi people, and for America.
