Where are the anti-war protesters?

Reason's Ira Stoll remarks about the dog that didn't bark: Record numbers of U.S. troops are dying under Obama, but the anti-war movement is nowhere to be found.

You don't have to go to George Bush supporters to find people who will tell you that anti-war protesters were political hacks; the formerly anti-war Left will admit it.

In a phone interview, the national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, which organized some of the largest antiwar protests during the Bush administration, Michael McPhearson, said part of the explanation is political partisanship. A lot of the antiwar protesters, he said, were Democrats. “Once Obama got into office, they kind of demobilized themselves,” he said.

“Because he’s a Democrat, they don’t want to oppose him in the same way as they opposed Bush,” said Mr. McPhearson, who is also a former executive director of Veterans for Peace, and who said he voted for President Obama in 2008. “The politics of it allows him more breathing room when it comes to the wars.”

The Virginian Pilot reports on the deaths of the Seals in the crash in Afghanistan, but there is no anti-war sentiment that would have accompanied it if this had happened during a Republican administration.

It's also the reason there is almost no mention of the Obama fiasco in Libya. You remember, the war that Obama told us would be over in "days, not weeks."

How many Americans have died fighting Obama's wars?

The Obama administration is on pace to have more American soldiers killed in casualties related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than the George W. Bush administration did in its first term.

Already, hundreds more American troops have been killed in Afghanistan during the less than three years of the Obama administration than during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration.

Where is the Liberal outrage at the carnage? Where are the crusading reporters counting civilian deaths as they did during the Bush administration?

I supported Bush and his desire to transform the Middle East and strike at the Islamofascist heart. But this comment is simply a reminder that there really was no meaningful anti-war movement. Rather the war and the soldier's deaths were a cynical facade for Liberals to attack their political enemies using American dead as their props.