Brendan Loy is Making Sense.

Loy:

"Not antiwar, just on the other side" is something of a catchphrase, generally used to point out particularly egregious instances of bad behavior by the most radical of the antiwar crowd. For example, giving money to Iraqi insurgents, or chillin' with suicide bombers, or suggesting that coalition soldiers are legitimate targets. In those sorts of cases, it's an appropriate moniker, the point being that these traitorous idiots are claiming the mantle of "antiwar" and if the real, legitimate antiwar crowd -- the loyal opposition -- doesn't want its good name smeared, it should condemn them in no uncertain terms.

In this case, though, I think Glenn has gone rather too far. The story he linked is about an obviously deranged person whose actions clearly have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with either psychological illness or sociopathic evil -- with politics being nothing more than an excuse or a trigger. I'm no psychologist, but that's fairly obvious, isn't it? I mean, he walked into a train station and killed some random guy with an ax. That's not really what I would call a political act. There is no indication that he's involved with any antiwar group, nor that his actions are in any way consistent with others in even the most radical extremes of the antiwar crowd. So I think it's a rather significant stretch to use the "not antiwar, just on the other side" label on this particular story. It would be a bit like saying, nine years ago:

NOT SO PRO-LIFE after all: "Sniper Kills Abortion Doctor Near Buffalo."

Indeed.

Mr. Loy, apparently a starry-eyed optimist, doesn't realize that Putz would kill a family of poodles for a chance to mock liberals.

(Some would say the poodles had it coming, but that's neither here nor there.)