ANDREW SULLIVAN has a lot of interesting observations on the war, the antiwar protests, and the media.

He’s right about the scarcity of protesters this weekend. I didn’t see any. The InstaWife saw a few, but they didn’t interfere with getting around the Mall. According to the New York Times there were “more than 10,000.” Not much of a crowd, even if you assume the Times estimate is on the low side, and each protest seems smaller.

But it’s not just their numbers that are hollow — it’s their ideas. Having failed miserably to prevent the war, they’re now calling for an “immediate withdrawal” from Iraq. That’s a course of action that (as even antiwar folks like Howard Dean have noted) would surely be disastrous for the Iraqi people, and for America.

Whose side are these people on?

UPDATE: C.D. Harris thinks he knows what side they’re on.