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Lynch must not use Afghan women as a cover for continued US occupation of their country. He should vote to deny funds for the Afghanistan war, to bring all the troops home and end the bloodshed. Afghan women’s struggle for rights will be a long one, but it cannot be waged by our military. Let’s get out of their way.

The October protest schedule is expected to include marches in Washington and elsewhere. But organizers acknowledge that it may be difficult to recruit large numbers of demonstrators. So groups like United for Peace and Justice are also planning smaller events in communities around the country, including teach-ins with veterans and families of deployed troops, lobbying sessions with members of Congress, film screenings and ad hoc memorials featuring the boots of deceased soldiers and Marines.

The military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about has become a nearly omniscient political power with an interest in its own self-perpetuation that has little to do with defending the country. Mr. O'Hanlon ought to question what the military's mission is before shilling for it.

At the exhibit, Staff Sgt. Raoul Sheridan, an Iraq war veteran wearing his camouflage uniform, stood beside a howitzer while kids in baseball caps and pigtails took instruction on how to fire the towering piece of artillery from a fellow Marine.

When it comes to Post coverage, how many peaceful activists does it take to equal one vandal? If you were advising our youth, would you suggest that they start destroying personal property as the only way for their efforts to be noticed?

Mike Prokosch hasn't forgotten that more than five years have passed since the Bush administration declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. During that time, rather than focus on staging antiwar protests and sit-ins, the longtime Dorchester activist has attracted hundreds of members to his peace movement in the neighborhood, which has worked toward bridging global, local, and personal issues like halting home mortgage foreclosures and reforming the existing Criminal Offender Record Information, or CORI, system.

Yet Mr. Obama faces pressure from his political base to stick to his 16-month timetable. “We voted for him because he’s going to get us out of Iraq,” said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, an antiwar group. “If there are some military people who feel we should stay there, they’re entitled to their opinion, but that shouldn’t be our policy.”

I'm not sure which is worse, Anne Applebaum's cynicism about European leaders' efforts to establish a cease-fire to end the Israeli assault on Gaza or her faux-naivete that the U.S. government is powerless to stop the carnage ["It's a War Process," Jan. 6, op-ed].

At the end of Camp David, when he told us "there's no partner," Ehud Barak propagated an even bigger lie: that we have a peace camp. How pleasant it is to delude ourselves that we have one, and how depressing it is to know that we don't. There is no left - just empty words. When the only demonstration in town is over student tuition, when the only discourse in city and village alike concerns the "Big Brother" TV show, and the loudest cries are over "corruption" and Olmert's frequent-flier miles instead of over the jailed Palestinian who is bleeding and beaten, who hasn't had a normal day in his life - then we know for sure that there is no peace camp in Israel in 2008.

Benjamin's file lists two potential terrorism "crimes": a primary one as an environmental extremist and a secondary one as an anarchist and animal rights activist.