Last time I checked, Sasaki was anti-Republican. But I could be wrong. He is trying to make a point that Republicans are using fear to persuade during this election season. However, for those of us who recognize the threat that Al Qaeda and Islamofascism represents, this is no topic for sophistry. There is a very real danger alive and patiently waiting to strike.

The Democrats have selected politics over national security. They are willing to risk the destruction of the United States in order to regain power. Kim Jung Il expanded his nuclear ambitions under the Clinton Administration while the Bush administration has used diplomatic resolve to further isolate N.K. even from its Russian and Chinese allies. While the results of Bush diplomacy on the Korean penninsula has yet to show its consequence, we certainly know the consequence of Democrat foreign diplomatic strategy and I find them to be unpalatable.

Furthermore, let me remind you that it was under Clinton, not President George W. Bush, that Al Qaeda grew into the menace we found it on 9/11. We were attacked with the policies of decades past as an excuse for terrorism, and not for the policies of the fledgling Republican Administration of 2001.

I understand that the people of this nation would prefer to return to the "normalcy" of a pre-9/11 security perception. Unfortunately, that is not possible. The enemy will continue to strike us and the policies of the Democratic party will only serve to provide us with a false sense of security.

My biggest complaint is with our weak-willed instant gratification culture which seeks to shirk from courage and sacrifice. Even the old Democrats had enough sense to place security before politics. John F Kennedy once said " Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Where is that party today?