There is really only one issue that matters in the long run in the elections on Tuesday. That is the Global War on Terror.

If the democrats win the House and/or the Senate on in this mid-term election, it will be viewed as a victory by our enemies in the Global War on Terror.

Orson Scott Card writes:

Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case — if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.

But at least there will be a chance.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — the party I joined back in the 1970s — is dead. Of suicide.

The rest of Card’s essay is a reasoned explanation of the complexities and dangers we are facing in this Global War on Terrorism. He takes a comprehensive look at the possible outcomes and consequences of our actions, or inactions, and the resulting ripple effect throughout the world.

It is a deadly chess game whose outcome will impact the world. We will either fight it now or have a much deadlier fight throughout the next generation.

h/t: LGF