Next Saturday, an anti-war demonstration is being planned in Amsterdam, with the obvious target being the US. All the usual suspects have signed up for it, the great coalition of Dutch Idiotarians. Many of the organizations that are going to show up were born as the so-called "peace movement" of the 1980s, whose principal message was unilateral disarmament in the face of the Soviet threat. These were people whose choice in the Cold War was to side with the Evil Empire, and most of Moscow's useful idiots still march to the tune of anti-Americanism.

Nothing new so far. However, what struck me in this report is that one of the organizations known as the IKV (its name would be the inter-church peace council in English) has refused to sign on to the anti-war platform. The reason: opposing military action also means opposing the liberation of the Iraqi people. If an organization with a track record such as the IKV can come to its senses, there may be hope yet.