in order to maintain the moral high ground.
Is that serious?
WTF.
It is the same mincing mindset that encouraged Zelensky to flee and not fight at the beginning of the war. To which the entirely proper answer was, "Give me ammunition, not a ride."
Every day in every way Ukraine proves it has the moral high ground. By fighting the wicked people invading their country. There is nothing more moral than defending your country and your family from a killer.
You know what Churchill would have told Roosevelt if in 1939 or 1940 or 1941 up until Pearl Habor he'd said something of that sort to him about Hitler? Here's the short version. Two letters: N and O. But you can garner some portion of the moral high ground yourself when you join Britain on the battle field fighting this monster. Hopefully it doesn't take an attack on your country for you to figure it out.
The damned cheek of it. We're back to the US talking down from its pulpit, as if it has some sort of higher moral standing than the country defending itself from terror. What a weak and small man Biden is compared with Zelensky. What a shocking failure of support and perspective.
What would Biden have done after 911? Negotiated with Bin Laden in some form of ritual Kabuki? That's the wrong sort of theatre. This is Henry V. Crispin Crispian's day. Where we stand for something. And against something too.
If only the president had a model of how to respond in front of him. As if he knew that the whole vast power of the English language was his to command. And not the wet lettuce which issues from his mouth. Phew!
"This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."
"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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