The current and growing anti-war movement is unique from the protests against the Vietnam war in that this protest movement is separated from a counterculture as in that of the 1960's. Though there is nothing wrong with a counterculture, especially the revolution in music, fashion, and art in the 1960's, this current peace action is more practical. In the 1960's, there was a utopian idealism that permeated the attempt to stop the war. It clouded purposeful strategy, and when those ideals were not readily realized there was a lot of disillusionment among people as the 1970's began. Today, the anti-war mobilization is a broad collection of people from all walks of life. And there is still a counterculture, though infused with irony and aware of its limits and boundaries.