At first glance, the new anti-war movement-- composed primarily of students from my generation-- seems like a relatively harmless group of demonstrators. But dig a little deeper, and one can see that the movement is just reeking of moral hypocrisy and unadulterated socialism.

Observe exactly what it is that these demonstrators stand for: they oppose the use of force from a civil country like the United States to depose a ruthless Iraqi dictator, but they do not object to said dictator's brutal oppression of his own citizens. Saddam Hussein's thugs routinely and systematically rape women, often while the victims' families are forced to watch. And when one of his ministers suggested that Hussein step down prior to the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator had him executed on the spot. This is not the behavior of a civilized country; rather, one that practices a form of primordial barbarism. Yet as author Ayn Rand noted, it is this kind of savagery that "today's alleged peace-lovers are willing to advocate or tolerate in the name of love for humanity."

Even the movement's own leaders-- some of whom are washed-out political hacks from the Vietnam era (i.e., Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark)-- actually have a history of parlaying with nihilistic (i.e., those rulers who value death and destruction as an end) despots from around the world such as Slobodan Milosevic and the Iraqi regime itself.

Clark is affiliated with the International Action Center, which is one of several fronts for the slavish Worker's World Party, a hardcore-communist group that defends the massacre of *students* at Tienanmen Square in 1989. The leaders of this antiwar movement-- people like Ramsey Clark-- are primarily leftovers (and many professors) from the Vietnam era but continue to prosper by duping the younger generations with their various forms of political irrationalities.

What, then, is the underlying cause for getting thousands of young people onto the streets in protest? Part of it is the moral relativism and cultural subjectivism that they've mindlessly absorbed from academia. The students' minds, like sieves, have selectively processed every existential untruth that their professors have thrown at them: i.e., that there is no right or wrong, that capitalism and pursuing one's own interests are evil.

Judging from the students that truly buy into this rubbish, they indeed value death and destruction more than they do peace and freedom, for there can be no peace internationally until individual nations seize in the abuse and destruction of their own peoples.