Put quite simply, the Democrats are psychologically and politically invested in an American defeat. It would be politically suicidal for them to openly advocate they want this to happen but this is the effect of their denunciation of American policy in the Middle East. They don't care if we lose as long as they get back into power. The Democrats' world view may be loony and morally repugnant but as strategery it has much to commend it, playing as it does on Americans' ignorance of things (abetted by the MSM) abroad and a natural desire to stop being the world's policeman. In an earlier age, such a position would not have been a matter of life and death for America. With 9/11 all that changed - and isolationism
pace is no longer a tenable position since we no longer have two big oceans to serve as moats to keep us safe from distant quarrels. Thanks to air travel, they can arrive almost instantly and inflict the greatest lethality imaginable upon a free society. The Democrats do not understand the old ways of doing things will never work again - even as their demagoguery endangers Americans' safety abroad and at home in this century.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Put quite simply, the Democrats are psychologically and politically invested in an American defeat...Well, sort of...but not completely accurate. What they really want is Bush's defeat, but if that means America's defeat, it's okay with them. Democrats have been slapped in the face, hard, twice: in 2000 and 2004. They want revenge and they're prepared to sacrifice America to get it.
At least that's the way I see it.