It's not looking good for the Senate at this point, so I am moving forward with the assumption that the Democrats have taken control of both houses of Congress. But I'm not glum! I'm really looking forward to higher taxes, income redistribution and a shameful retreat and eventual failure in Iraq.

All kidding aside, it is a pivotal moment in these first few years of the twenty-first century. It seems that local elections were decided on a national level, as all the pundits seem to be saying this was driven by dissatisfaction with the Iraq war. The Democrats promised a phased withdrawal from Iraq and a seeming abandonment of a policy goal of achieving victory there. The people seemed to have listened, so here we are today, with Congress firmly in control of the Democrats, and the Senate teetering on the brink.

The problem with the Democrats' policy on Iraq is that it is based on getting us out, not winning. There is a fatal misunderstanding of the enemy we are facing. Years of anti-Bush rhetoric have blinded Democrats and liberals to the truly dangerous nature of the enemy we face. The "blame America first crowd" has been so focused on opposing Bush that they have have stretched that blame back well before he was president, blaming him for all the evils in the world. They are convinced now that if we suffer a terrorist attack, it is because of Bush's policies, conveniently overlooking the terrorist attacks in the 90s, 80s and 70s. They seem to think the world is experiencing a series of completely unrelated events, and that the terror war should be fought only in Afghanistan. They blindly ignore the very words of our enemies, excusing it as "Bush propaganda." Karl Rove must be pretty good if he can put words in the mouth of Al Qaeda leaders, radical Muslim clerics and heads of state like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Garrison Keillor said in his column today "if you can't accomplish the mission, then you accept it and find a graceful way out." This is the key to the Democrats failure to understand what we are up against. There is no graceful way out. This isn't like the Vietnam war, where we can send our troops home, then look the other way while the people we abandoned are slaughtered by the millions. When we leave, the enemy will follow us here. They have said they will. They are amassing followers all over the globe, and if we're not fighting them in Iraq, we will be fighting them somewhere, and there is a good chance it will be here.

And it won't be because of Bush's policies. The radical Muslims are on the march, and their goal is to unite the world under Islam. This was their goal before Bush was president, and it will be their goal after the Democrats abandon Iraq. They are fighting in Russia, in Southeast Asia, in Africa from the Sahara to South Africa, all over the Middle east, in London and Germany and France, etc., and they are already here, and soon they will be escalating the fight here. Liberals can revise history all they want, but history is written by the victors, and their policies are about to take away their ability to write any more history. If we abandon Iraq, when the enemy comes knocking on my door, I won't be blaming Bush. I'll be blaming the Democrats.