Major combat operations

... aren't even over in Afghanistan.

If one of the Democrats manages to prevent McCain from delivering four more years of Bushist misrule, Afghanistan is the place to prove Democratic national security credibility. The Taliban, after all, actually did attack us.

The problem with that, of course, is that Americans are tired of Iraq, which has been going on for five years, while the war in Afghanistan has taken six and a half. Fatigue makes a hard problem even more difficult.

Pro-torture Republicans

Duhbya and the Bushists favor torture. There's no clearer way to put it.

Even with this veto, torture remains a war crime, illegal under U.S. law and the (formerly enforced) Constitution.

Update: CNN illustrates their story with Duhbya jovially talking to the Heritage Foundation about waterboarding in 2007. This is the conservative movement's morality.