The fundamental conceit of anti-war activists is that you can be against one side without being for the other. War is the ultimate zero-sum game. What is a gain for one side is a loss for the other.
That is what is so creepy about the criticisms of the possibility of elections not being held in every single place in Iraq. Or rather, the seriousness with which the criticisms are being treated. They are in effect telling the enemy if you can keep blowing up cars and assassinating people in public so that people are afraid to line up and vote then you can win, the vote is called off or even if it is held it is illegitimate. If the election is ‘seen’ as illegitimate then the resistance will be defacto legitimate. The people fretting about whether the election will be ‘seen’ as legitimate are exactly the same people that making it so. And what is even more galling is that the UN had no trouble with the legitimacy of Sadaam’s regime or of any of the dictators in the region. They have put Sudan in the chair of the human rights commission for the UN and have the gall to ‘question’ the legitimacy of an election that takes place in only 15 of 18 provinces?
But of course they don’t see themselves as being pro-resistance, they are just anti-US. That justifies everything.
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