Where Stop the War went wrong

Over at Normblog, there is a link to a very useful piece called “Don't stop the war” by Andrew Mueller on Open Democracy. Andrew had been on the big Stop the War march in 2003 but refused to join the recent one because of “Stop The War's failure to engage constructively with anything that has happened in the last three and a half years. Its sole stock response has been to complain about any and every deployment of American or British military force, whatever the circumstances, whatever the reality. In Iraq right now, the reality is that despite a rebellion by a ruthless and unpleasant assortment of Ba'athist holdouts, foreign adventurers and religious dingbats masquerading as a "resistance", elections have been held, a government is being formed, institutions are being built. There is absolutely no plausible way that any of this indisputable progress would survive the withdrawal that Stop The War are demanding.”