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As Shaw said, we learn from history that we learn nothing from history. Ayers still doesn't have a clue.
The war in Vietnam was over by the time the Weathermen stockpiled their cherry bombs. It was just several more years before it actually took. But that group of felons in D.C. just couldn't let it go, not with a bunch of lank-haired, piss-ants college kids running around trying to blow things up. I think it was an alpha thing; let a challenge go without a response and you know longer have mating rights with the pack. And if there was one thing that pack of curs in D.C. had, it was an alpha complex.
I'd venture a guess that the Weathermen didn't change a single mind, but just had too much time time on their hands and too much testosterone in the pouch. The war might, repeat, "might" have ended sooner if Ayers and his wingnuts had simply marched around with signs, chanted slogans and got conked on the head like the rest of us.
