I went down to Mountain

I went down to Mountain View yesterday. As I was eating lunch, an anti-war protest marched past the restaurant I was eating in. I'm all for anti-war protests, but what bugged me about it was one of their rallying cries: "No War, not in our name!" I'm all for the message of no war, but the whole "not in our name" part sends the message that we do want war, we just don't want to take responsibility/credit for taking part in it. I find that interesting. I suppose if it was a UN police action, people would support it more. It kind of makes me wonder about the other wars the United States has engaged in over the last 227 years. We know that the wars since the 60s have all had protests, but did people protest the War of 1812 or the Mexican-American War? How about World War I or World War 2? It's interesting what the history books leave out. How will this war be recorded in the history books? Do you know for instance how the American Revolutionary War is taught in Great Britain, if at all? It goes something like this: Americans dumped a bunch of tea into a harbor, The Brits went in to take in those responsible, the Americans hid in the woods, and the Brits gave up looking for them. History is written by both the victor and the loser... be wary of what future generations learn from history.