I Got This Sense in SF

Back during the big protests in the run up to the Iraq war, I noticed an odd quality amongst the protesters, a hostility and anger and violence, where they craved anarchy and not political expression. This was reflected in the tactics of blocking buildings and people going to work, blocking off streets, violently getting in people's faces and insisting they listen....the road to totalitarianism, methinks.

Anyhow, Instapundit and C. Hitchens nail it, and I wish I had been able to articulate this way back then.

UPDATE: Donald Sensing has more about the two different camps of anti-war people.

The first camp is the most scary - the Down with America camp, not just apologists, but actual supporters of fascism, totalitarianism, and now jihadism.

The second camp is the more common camp - the Political Identity Camp, those who would support the war if Kerry or Hillary Clinton were waging it, but not G W Bush.

Sensing gives a nod to the Mennonites and Quakers - true pacificts, but argues these folks are nearly negligible population-wise. For arguments sake, I think he takes a decent position, but I think there are folks who take a practical opposition to the war, that it won't sufficiently hurt Al Queda, which is the immediate threat and that the potential can of worms it opens was too risky to engage in this critical moment. They would argue that our role should be to rally the worlds intelligence services together and work within the preestablished law enforcement and intelligence agencies. One could even argue that we shouldn't have invaded and occupied Afghanistan, that we should have just gone in and wiped out all of the terrorist camps and left. And then we should continue to do so for years to come.