It seems that the anti-war movement demobilised with the election of Obama, is there some reorientation now?
There’s a very good film by Robert Greenwald on Afghanistan (Rethinking Afghanistan, 2009) which people are starting to show. It’s kind of like waking from a dream and going, “Oh, we still seem to be at war.” And he’s sending 30,000 more troops, which doesn’t include the contractors. These numbers are very slippery. So I think people are beginning to regroup and say, No, no, no, no, no, this has to be opposed. But it’s hard. My colleague, Ruth Rosen, wrote about her heart being broken by Obama. I just never fell in love in that way. Does this make it more difficult to resist? For example, there have been big debates about abortion and healthcare reform in recent weeks. The abortion debate has been appalling, absolutely appalling! Because people still see Obama as progressive, I think he’s made it harder. There’s no doubt that Obama is charming and brilliant and learned and Michelle is so adorable and the children are so adorable – there is such a cult of celebrity around the Obamas, it