re: Democrats need to understand
That all they have brought to the table in this so far is a complete and absolute policy vacuum, other than "Bush sucks!"
Your post correctly describes the problems we're faced with, but as I said in previous posts, I'm not seeing any real ideas from the Democrats.
"We'd do it better" is not a policy, without some details. It's a meaningless statement.
Please note that the Left has just wrecked an operation tracking terrorist financial transactions, exactly the type of thing most anti-war liberals believe would be one of the effective non-military ways to deal with terror.