Started with Ender’s Game and then read everything I could get my hands on. For Science Fiction, there are few out there who can weave a tale as well.

And now there’s another reason: Civilization Watch.

There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that’s the War on Terror.

And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.

If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.

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.

He lays out a Democrat’s Dilemma better than most.

Via JayTea over at Wizbang.

And yes, I would have linked this even if he hadn’t linked to the PaintShop This One Contest.