The anti-interventionist movement, if we can refer to such an amorphous creature, is at a crossroads at the start of this election season. On the left, the remnants of the antiwar movement have been dispersed and absorbed into the Democratic party, where they have become foot soldiers for Obama — a President who has
taken upthe foreign policy of his immediate predecessor and
injectedit with some pretty
strongsteroids. Left-wing antiwar activism has
almost disappearedentirely, except for the marginal protests of a few Marxist-Leninist grouplets. Indeed,
someon the left are even jumping on the interventionist bandwagon,claiming the Western-backed Syrian rebels are really Marxist “revolutionaries,” and not Osama bin Laden-
wannabees.