A lesser-known fact about the 4 students shot at Kent State is that they were trying to burn down the ROTC building.
They weren't innocent peace-love-and-granola hippie protestors, they were radicals, looking for trouble. And they got what they were looking for.
As for these recent protestors to the Iraq war, I doubt they fully understand what's at stake, or have any alternative strategies to offer, other than retreating from Iraq, so millions of democratic Iraqis can be slaughtered by insurrectionists and ethnic death squads, assuring the destruction of democracy in Iraq, creating a hub of terrorism, and very likely de-stabilization that will spread to neigboring nations, and a breeding ground for terrorism that would allow evenits export to the United States.
That's what these dumbasses truly support, if they would bother to to think it through.