Last Sunday I told some people talking about Iraq that there would be no civil war.

Now that the media have put out their fiery locks it's being discovered that the civil war has fizzled. In a country with a free press, Bush's approval rates would be in the 60s.

Hugh Hewitt is arguing that the polls don't mean anything on the ports deal because when we're in that voting booth picking which party will better handle national security, there's no way the answer is the Democrats. Sounds like whistling through the graveyard, but it at least acknowledges that that's where we are. We're in a scary place, but if we show courage, faith in our prinicples, and resolve, we'll get through. The only thing we could do worse than engaging the world and trading with it, is withdrawing and leaving it to the EU, Russia, China, Japan and Korea to manage world affairs.

We already have liberals arguing that we can live with a nuclear Iran. Like we lived with the Soviet Union? Iran runs schools for suicide bombers, remember. Remember that when you vote this fall to release the detainees in Gitmo and seize foreign property in the U.S. and recall our troops. That's what voting for Democrats will mean.