The role of America, the future of the western world and its ideal is what is at stake in this election. It ain't about healthcare, or Viet Nam or budget deficits, as important as all those may be in their place.
The question is who is best suited to lead this country and set its direction for the next half century?
I think we know the answer to the question
The only problem is that our guys are more worried about how much Saudi money they can stuff in their pocket as soon as they are out of office than they are about promoting 'democratic globalism'.
Bob Baer in his book 'Sleeping With the Devil' makes it abundantly clear that our worst enemy, Saudi Arabia litteraly owns this country and most of the politicians. Yes even Condi Rice. She sat on the board of a major oil company and will go back to work for big oil as soon as she gets out of this administration. ( which will be soon if the rumors are true)
We created Saudi Arabia. We literally fashioned it into the inhuman place it is and all for graft .... and I suppose cheap oil.
Our side supposedly understands what Krauthammer points out in this very good article .... but our guys are corrupt. The Bush family is wholly sold out to the House of Saud. We still have no human intel throughout Islam. We have no means of building it. Our CIA is incompetent and our State Department is a nest of treasonous eletes.
We are massively effed.