War Is Boring

So there was a huge anti-war protest just a couple miles from my Washington, D.C. apartment this morning. I slept through it, but the Associated Press was there. Now, I’ve got decidedly mixed feelings about the Iraq war, but my respect for U.S. soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and Coastguardsmen is apolitical. These guys are out there risking their lives every day in sometimes miserable conditions: sweltering heat, freezing rain, ankle-deep mud. Your average protester, by contrast, buckles in a 35-degree chill after an hour or two, according to the AP:

Police no longer give official estimates but said privately that perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 anti-war demonstrators marched, with a smaller but still sizable number of counterprotesters also out in force. An hour into the three-hour Pentagon rally, with the temperature near freezing, protesters had peeled away to a point where fewer than 1,000 were left.

Never mind their politics. Never mind their vision for an ideal world. Here’s what I think about these people at the most basic human level: 

They’re wimps.

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