There is a similar problem with the unending series of Nato mishaps - including yesterday's farcical bombing of Albania. There is a generational problem, too. Too much of the anti-war case is premised on a cold war view of the world, one which holds that whatever America's for, the left must be against. Pilger, Ali and the rest can't speak to this group. Somehow the struggles of their youth have made them unmoved by the barbarism now under way in their middle age.
Elitism is a turn-off, too.
In other words, dear voter, you are simply not clever enough to have a view on the plight of the Kosovans. Two other ingredients are missing from the anti-war campaign, both of which reduce its appeal. First, it lacks a basic human empathy. They boast that their answer is logically watertight. For their position is to do nothing.