This summed up the left's attitude. They had put faith in democracy, the public's sense of morality or the Vietnam syndrome to stop this unjust war. It buys the myths sold by the media and ignores the real ways wars happen.
War is a continuation of social peace by more extreme means.
Dull work, television and the police create a world that is already militarized. If a country has social peace, in the modern world, it has always been able to hold wars. No faction of the ruling class has ever tried to sabotage a war. In every country there is a unspoken balance of power between the rulers and the ruled. Factory workers will only be made to work so hard.