You are right. And I would have expected better from Freepers than saying this is a “Big Win.”
But I guess we saved our “political capital”!
I guess we are not broke as a country as long as we all have our political capital, right?
Maybe we can give our “political capital” to posterity.
They won’t have a strong country, or a strong economy, or any wealth, but by God, at least Republicans didn’t give away any political capital!
Boy that would have been horrible if we lost that.
/sarcasm off
I suppose you would have been the British officer that ordered the charge of the Light Brigade. A charge into the cannons on both sides of the dead ended valley will only chew up and make a bloody pulp of fine cavalry.
Given the strong emplacement and the inability to take the high ground, a better course is to post snipers and knock off as many officers as stick up their heads above the ramparts.
The basic assumption, a win, is fallacious. Kill what you can, while you can and make the cavalry charge on better ground.