Most Dems are also more concerned about politics than civic security. So many American cities are basket cases because Dems operate on
victimhood philosophies ("It's not my fault")
wishful thinking (as in "I wish all the children would do well in school")
no concept of personal responsibility or consequences.
However they might define "national security."
Problem is, the Republicans have the very same affliction.
A secure nation doesn't launch unprovoked attacks against another nation, with or without the UN's blessing.
Let's face it. The horrendous mistakes in US foreign policy over the years since WWII were bipartisan in nature. I'm not talking about just military action (properly known as intervention) but also the acts of stupidity repeatedly shown in supporting one side over another in civil wars, enacting trade embargoes which only serve to p*ss off a lot of innocent victims and, especially important to those of us who respect the concept of national sovereignty, subrogating the interests of this nation to those of the collective body know as the United Nations.
On this last point, the Republicans have recently shown a little gumption, while the Democrats are still starry-eyed true believers. They see disarmament as nothing more than gun control on a world-wide scale, and a UN one-world army as your neighborhood cop wearing a powder-blue helmet.
Still, neither party can quite accept the notion that peace is far preferable to war. Neither party seems to understand that we are unique in the world; that the freedoms we treasure are unknown in most of the third world; that, as much as we may want to, we just cannot impose our values and system of government on other nations; and that free trade with those countries our government dislikes will go a lot farther toward establishing good relations than embargoes or invasions.
But then, these folks are all politicians, so what can we expect?