Charles Krauthammer explains how much the Middle East region has improved since 9/11 thanks to the determination of W. It is this determination that the Democrats want to destroy. The future safety of America depends upon taming the flames that smolder in the Middle East by helping the forces of freedom shed the shackles of tyranny (As we did in Iraq with no help from the Democratic Party).

The caveat, as Krauthammer says, is that "it all hinges on success in Iraq. On America's not being driven out of Iraq the way it was driven out of Lebanon and Somalia -- which is what every terrorist and every terrorist state wants to see happen. And with everything at stake, what is the left doing? Everything it can to undermine the enterprise. By implying both that it was launched fraudulently (see yellowcake) and, alternately, that it has ensnared us in a hopeless quagmire."