Hugh Hewitt interviewed columnist to the world Mark Stein today on his radio program, where Stein had this observation to share about the Democrats’ collapse of support for national security:

HH: And even as that unfolds, however, like runaway trucks, the left in the United States cannot seem to cope with news, especially news for which they’re not programmed. And so Yearly Kos unfolds into a long, anti-Bush rant, and today in the Senate and the House, the resolution to cut and run out of Iraq lost by a vote of 93-6 in the Senate, with only Boxer and Feingold and Kerry and Kennedy and a couple of other…you know, Bryd and one other person. But the net roots, as they call them, can’t seem to cope with this, Mark Steyn.

MS: Well, no. I mean, you say only six, but we’re talking about the great lion of the Democratic Party, Ted Kennedy. We’re talking about their last presidential candidate…

HH: Yup.

MS: John Kerry. We’re talking about the so-called father of the Senate, Robert C. Byrd. I mean, we are talking about very eminent figures here. And what I think people should understand is that whatever the argument for going into Iraq, once you’re in it, you’ve got to have even better arguments for getting out of a was without victory. And I think for America to actually announce an exit strategy, to say you’re right, this is a disaster, we’re getting out of here, we’re going home, it would end the American moment. If America cannot even withstand in fact what is a relatively successful operation in Iraq, if even that is too traumatizing for a society of 300 million, then that’s the end of the American moment. There’s no reason for Russia and China to pay any attention to America ever again. Not only that, there’s no reason for Belgium or Luxembourg to take America seriously ever again. It’s over. You go the John Kerry route, it’s over. And if Americans really want to be the kind of defeatist loser nation that Kerry-Kennedy & Co. paint them as, so be it. I don’t think they are, and in fact, I would say you know, despite the best efforts of the Republican Party to shoot themselves in the foot and in the hand and in the kneecap and everywhere else, that the Democrats will not do well this November, and the Republican Party will hold Congress.

He’s spot on, as usual.  Historically speaking our casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are miniscule in relation to any previous significant military conflict.  The truth is we used to lose more people per year in training accidents during the Cold War than our military is now fighting a hot conflict against the terrorists and insurgents.  And yet a significant portion of our nation can’t stand it, aren’t willing to support a fight against any enemy not literally on our own shores already.  Is that portion a majority?  It hasn’t been in the past two elections, nor was it during the entire run of the Cold War.  History would suggest it won’t be in November either.