What if they held a rally and nobody came? Well, almost nobody. I haven’t seen any estimates — and I’m much to tired to go in search of them now — but, from the photographs, attendance seems pitifully low when compared with all the anti-war protests nationwide last month. Maybe they feel that war is such a foregone conclusion that there’s little reason to march in support of it. I fear that might be the case. I live in hope, however, that Bush’s decision to turn his back on overwhelming public opinion, calls for diplomacy from our allies at home and abroad, and basic common sense will lose him the next election. (I worry about the lackluster Democrats vying for the party’s 2004 nomination, but that’s another story.)