A Little Bit of 'Hope'?

[Annie]

While I find scant comfort in this take, it has some merit. (Have to scroll down a bit):

http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/08/crocodile-eats-you-anyway-blogging.html

Addendum:
Good news in a way. Attempts by the Democratic Party to portray itself as the "War Party" and to cast John Kerry in the role of a warrior are a backhanded admission that appeasement is no longer a respectable public position, at least in America. On its face, the liberal establishment has executed one of the most astonishing countermarches in public policy history behind the falsely ebullient facade of the convention. Yet on closer inspection, their new determination to fight terrorism is still a Jim Crow form of pacifism, an effort to perpetuate the antebellum policies beloved by the Party base in acceptable phrases. There are warlike sounds without an enemy named; a candidate reports for duty without articulating a strategy for victory. It is the Band of Brothers speech without an Agincourt, either pending or envisaged. But it is the first crack in the monumental edifice of Left, and while small, a disturbing and tingling tremor runs to the top of its highest battlements. Is it ...

the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.

The little rift within the lover’s lute
Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit,
That rotting inward slowly molders all?​

Maybe.