And he, a Democrat, was right - even when that "right" meant dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland and later going into some Asian peninsula on the other side of the planet where there were darned little in the way of what constitutes as "US interests" other than the protection of a fledgling attempt at democracry from becoming enveloped into totalitarianism.

Vietnam, Korea and WWII were all initiated and maintained during Democratic administrations. At the time (and throughout until closure) these were "right" decisions in spite of not being popular and the cost.

An interesting question would have been whether Al Gore, or even Barack Obama would have made different decisions regarding Iraq and Afghanistan based on all the information (especially that which the public never sees on the evening news) at hand at that time and now (and there is a LOT which the public never sees). If they follow in the ideological footsteps of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson - or even President Clinton for the Bosnian/Serbian and Somolian situations, the answer is "very highly doubtful."