Two HUGE ISSUES really worry me: Iraq and the illegals. Will the RATs screw them both up forever?
"Two HUGE ISSUES really worry me: Iraq and the illegals. Will the RATs screw them both up forever?"
If Dems cause us to lose Iraq (surely, they will pay no political price for this as the MSM will blame Bush for failure), rest assured that we will have war forced upon us elsewhere. I don't know when or where, but it will happen.
If Dems force a humiliating retreat from Iraq ala Viet Nam (gosh, twice in my life time) and Somalia, the lessons learned by both the resurgent jihadists and our "allies" (read moderate Arab regimes) will be that America cannot be trusted and is a paper tiger, unwilling to exert the necessary force for victory. Any Iraqi faction thus far committed to the democratic experiment will read the tea leaves and opt out for the security of their tribal insurgencies. Then, real civil war and partition. This is a generational set back.
If the message of this election is that Republican corruption and cronyism is bad, then OK. If, however, as I suspect the election will be spun as a repudiation of the GWOT, then God Help US! The majority of Americans are as decadent as the craven Euros we constatnly deride; unwilling to defend their common culture.