It will be infinitely more expensive and damaging to our society and economy if we do it the Liberal-Crat way. Post-war recovery will be infinitely harder than it was after WWII. The liberal voters may prefer destruction of America to fighting back but politicians, even liberal politicians,especially liberal politicians, want to survive. Politicians have major egos and liberals have weak or no belief in anything transcendent. They will not do suicide.
Even understanding that Kerry would ultimately fight and win, the Crat way of war would leave no resources to implement the utopia the liberals must work for.
Bush is their best bet for socialism just as Bush is our best bet for Constitutional government. He works for neither but he will leave the possibilities on the table.
The war on terrorism right now is like America fighting Hitler's Germany in 1938, we may have lost 20,000 or 30,000 troops defeating him then instead of 460,000 as it happened, maybe the world needed the lesson, let's not allow the lesson learned at so great a price be in vain, defeat the Islamic facist enemy now, pull no punch.