[MrEdd]

Funny.
I haven’t seen all that many anti-war people in political activism during my lifetime.

Certainly there were damned few of them in the United States during the sixties and seventies. Actual war protesters would protest against the diplomatic corps, Congress, the president, and the state department. The people who actually decide whether or not there will be a war.

People who protest at military bases are not in any way opposing the existence of war, they are merely opposing soldiers. It was like people angry at a law firm protesting the mailman for delivering legal notices.

[grania]

I disagree. Those who lived through the Viet Nam Era, when young men could be forced to join the military and serve in combat, it was war that was opposed. Listen to the music of the era: "Masters of War" "Monster" "War What is it Good For" etc. I have neighbors who were students at Kent State when four student protestors were killed by the National Guard. So many people who despise Trump are Bernie Sanders - Kucinich (etc) supporters. They don't like war at all, and a big part of the distaste for hillary is that she's an unprincipled war monger. They supported Obama because he pretended he was for ending global meddling.

No, except for being blinded by irrational mania, those people oppose, and always have opposed, being in Afghanistan and Syria. They got sold regime change in Kiev, Iraq, Libya, Egypt (etc) on false premises.