A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
We tend to forget that in all of our wars up to and including WWII, the kind of the things that the Democrats and the Democrat controlled media are doing were OUTLAWED. They would have shut down sites like Antiwar.com, Democracy Now! and probably censored half of the articles in the MSM (and 2/3rds of the NYT).
We stopped doing this after WWII, and have not won a major war since. I don't think it is a coincidence.
There have always been traitors like Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern and Joe Wilson. In the good old days they would have been thrown into jail.
It's a very daring experiment to allow such people to be at large in a time of war. Especially since so many of them are in the media, and are so hellbent on advancing their anti-American agendas.