I sent this to my friend Elin in 2003....

How goes the war on your front? Here it's the same. The majority still favor Pres. Bush but Americans tend to rally round the president, any president, in times like these—even when we create times like these. Things will change if the war goes on too long, we create too many enemies (as we‘re doing), and the U.S. economy stagnates.

Came across an appropriate JFK quote this morning from 1961: “The United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient... We are only six percent of the world’s population; we can't impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind.” Meanwhile the latest New Yorker magazine brings articles on our television coverage of the war (bordering on propaganda), W.'s lack of humility in his person or rhetoric, how the U.S. diplomatic community is viewing the war (scary line from a moderate on what's wrong with Europe: “What they‘re doing is listening to their public opinion, rather than leading it”), and an article on the documents relating to Iraq’s supposed nuclear program which helped pave the way for this war—even though, it turns out, they were forged. Not good. Most of my friends are against the war but then they're my friends.