EMAIL OF THE DAY III

“I have been reading you for some time now, and while a lot of conservatives and moderates have moved away because of your stances, I still come in to see what you have to say. I find this latest exchange between you and Reynolds distressing. I read Glenn all the time, and I do not think he is a ‘triumphalist’. He does err on the side of the positive, but frankly I am rather glad that he does. The mainstream press simply never ever does, and it is nice to have news sources that refuse to descend into eternal gloom and doom.
I fully understand your desire to point out the problems and hold people accountable. I am growing increasingly dissatisfied with Bush’s handling of the war I voted for him to handle. That having been said, your site does now feel relentlessly negative. I know it is not but it very much has that tone. Calling you a Kos diarist is unfair, but in a war where morale is difficult enough as it is, your site erodes it vastly more for me than any hardcore lefty site precisely because you did and do have credibility on the issue. It is painful to read your blog now and some people just can’t handle it. It is difficult for me.
I still support the Iraq war strongly. I still think it was completely the right thing to do, but I am beginning to realize that democracy in the middle east may be a necessary condition, but it is hardly sufficient. The London murderers grew up in a democracy. It did not seem to have helped. This problem is vastly more dire than I had hoped, and the neo-con strategy of transforming the middle east, which I agreed with before, may not work.”