Michael J. Smith on Saturday’s antiwar march in NYC:
I would have been more motivated to show up if the march had headed uptown rather than down from Union Square, toward Schumer’s and Clinton’s Manhattan offices, conveniently located a cozy block apart on Third Avenue, at 47th and 48th Streets respectively. But no, the peace movement, as usual, prefers to expend its strength against a target on which it can have no effect.
Press coverage, not surprisingly, was routine, and one can hardly blame the press — there was basically no story, just the usual kvetching on a mass scale. If the march had gone uptown — if a cadre of resisters had blocked Clinton’s and Schumer’s lobbies, or tossed blood on their doors — I daresay that would have created more of a stir.