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...And then when I read this today, by Andrew Bacevich, author of <i>American Empire</i> and <i>The New American Militarism</i> and whose son was recently killed in Iraq -- http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052807Z.shtml -- I was struck by the parallel between these two passages: Yours -- <blockquote>Oh, he'd like to meet me and sit and talk with me. After all, he lost a cousin in this war and he's spending every waking hour of every day doing what he can to stop this war. I got a version of the big picture argument. They are taking small steps, and yes, Rhoda, there will be many of these small steps, to get to the ultimate goal, Democrat control of the government."</blockquote> -- and his: <blockquote>Stephen F. Lynch, our congressman, attended my son's wake. [Senator John] Kerry was present for the funeral Mass. My family and I greatly appreciated such gestures. But when I suggested to each of them the necessity of ending the war, I got the brushoff. More accurately, after ever so briefly pretending to listen, each treated me to a convoluted explanation that said in essence: Don't blame me."</i> Looks like they gotta keep the party going to keep the Party going.