From a reader:

Hi Jonah,
I never, ever agree with you. At least I can’t say I do as a good liberal because the leftie thought-police (LTP) will take away my card (10% off all foreign movies!).
I have to agree with you on your critique of Joshua Marshall, whom I read often. I find myself in the silent majority of left-leaning voters who support this war, and I have had to turn to NRO and Andrew Sullivan and Fox News for a slanted, biased, Yankee imperialist, yet somehow proper discussion of the real issues. Thanks.
Why, you don’t ask? Because the cabalistic, sinister, bagel-eating neo-cons that must be pulling W’s strings have a point–they have focused our foreign policy on truly moral aims. Democracy, a free society, self-governance– whatever we call that thing we set up in Iraq, it will be the right thing however half-assed it ends up.
I must say that I’m caught off guard. I’m surprised at the position I’ve come to, and even more at how easy the liberal status quo was to go with until now. Until basic principles were actually put into play over Iraq, and liberals were found wanting.
It is forcing me to reevaluate my next vote in ways I never thought possible. I’m comforting myself with the thought that there is still plenty of time, that Bush can still screw everything else up, but below the surface I now quietly root for the usurper of the 2000 election. I want him to win today. And I guess I’m preparing myself not to be surprised if I still feel that way in 2004. That tells me plenty of other indie liberals are probably thinking the same thing.
Better get off now. The LTP might accuse me of rendering aid and comfort to the enemy. Final thought–cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys is in very poor taste, but I still laugh my ass off every time I hear it. Cheers.[Name withheld]