There's a nice piece about left/liberal angst and pessimism in JWR by Dick "Toesucker" Morris. He seems to be on a real jag to redeem himself (or perhaps to redeem his soul from the devil to which he sold it in the 90s).

Here is, in Matt Welch's parlance, the nutgraf:

How often must the left be proven wrong for it to start to figure that something is very wrong in its world view? How many Afghanistans and Gulf Wars must we win before they start to have a little faith in American prowess and technology. Now the left warns that aggressive United States action in Iraq will shatter the global coalition against terror and will leave our military alone, isolated in a grisly war with Baghdad. When will we stop taking the cautionary pessimism of the left seriously?