"Can you follow that? So can I. Why can't the Demo's?"
Here's a hint: substitute "Dim" for "Demo," and I think the reason begins to surface.
The rest of the reason is that there are truly those in our country, in the Dim Party, who would sooner see thousands of Americans killed if it would improve the (currently miserable) lot of their "Party."
If you don't believe that, you've never seen or heard Nancy Pelosi, Tommie Daschle, et al.
I've thought, if I were writing the headlines, mine would be something like
Stuff like that. I'd be fired, but it'd be a memorable career.
Dan