There's a good article in the Guardian today by Will Hutton. He correctly points out that 25 years of the rise of conservatism will not be undone overnight by electing John Kerry. However, if that occurs, it presents an opportunity that the American left has not had in some time to convince the electorate that there is a better course of action in both domestic and foreign affairs.

The war in Iraq was supposed to be a shining victory for neoconservatives. The irony is it's actually demonstrated their ineptitude, and thus the importance of multilateralism in the post Cold War era.