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We are all aware of the role of national will and the support of the American people in the pursuit of "diplomacy by other means".
While Carter and Clinton were the subject of morbid humor among the ranks, soldiers do not fight for their leaders, they fight for their brothers.
I would suspect that the political inclination of a President or other civilian leaders would have more effect on the enemy's morale and motivation than on ours.
I truly believe that a leader calling a war lost or declaring a timeline irrespective of battlefield successes borders on treason. If Lincoln had taken counsel of his naysayers, declared the war lost, or announced a timeline for withdrawing his forces, this country would be far different today.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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