Nothing the Ds MIGHT do could be worse that what the Cs HAVE done.

I hear this a lot. It isn't true, never mind the hysterical hyperbole about what the Republicans have done to "humanity in general."

We came out on the right side of the Cold War primarily because the Democrats weren't running the show in the 1980s.

If Kerry had won the election, he would have pulled out of Iraq about two minutes after the inauguration, and I would have given Afghanistan about six months after that, since we would be faced with exactly the same problems as Iraq. The results for the nations of the Middle East would have been much worse than what you're seeing right now.