JJ, so are you saying Cindy Sheehan was too overconfident, and is now wallowing in self-pity and feeling sorry for herself, not seeing things rationally and good riddance to her?

I think individuals, the right individuals, can make a huge difference, and she was making a difference. So it is sad that she feels defeated. Political change doesn't happen without optimists and dreamers. You have to believe you can make the change.

I think Dietrich Dorner wants people to think and behave like machines, to take the human emotion out of the equation. The world doesn't work that way.

Cindy Sheehan was a mother whose son was killed in an unjust war. She can't be as detached and organized in her cognitive responses as Dorner thinks is ideal. What she was doing was an emotional response to a tragedy. She was not capable of approaching these issues mechanically and methodically, and accepting adverse outcomes, as Dorner would like. She's a human being.