“Since when do democrats s want to stay in Afghanistan? Right now the enemy within is a bigger threat.”
2. The threat from within has ALWAYS been the bigger threat, at least since the Civil War. Yes, we’ve had some pretty big challenges since then, and lost an awful lot of people in handling them, but I don’t think that the existence of the country was ever at stake. When you have traitors in your midst, your nation is ALWAYS at risk.
“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.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Here is the FULL Cicero quote on traitors:
“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 he carries his banners openly against the city.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and 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 a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, from a speech given to the Roman Senate, recorded in approximately 42 B.C. by Sallust.
I am a bit hard pressed to disbelieve the notion that Cicero was a time traveler, and that he wrote that quote after observing Democrats of the 20th and 21st centuries.