I'm with you 100%. Many FReepers tend to put the most focus on the political and economic side of this battle, setting aside the moral. You can't do that. When you surrender the moral high ground, you've lost the war.
Like at Gettysburg, for instance, when the Union troops blocked Lee from taking the high ground, the battle - and ultimately the war - was over for the south. The high ground had to be held at all costs.
Which is why, in a perverted way, Obama was not present at Gettysburg, 2013.