War is entered in great patriotic hopes founded on righteous anger, rah rah rah! The boys march off under the peacetime generals. Then, War the Critic, strikes them down, and down, and down.
Finally, if fortunate, the generalship passes to men with the very kind of attitudes Theresa hates about FR. These men slug it out, no matter what spirit they feel, bitter, hopeless, despair. But one spirit overwhlems them all, all the other less resolute spirits. That is the spirit of simple dogged persistance.
The heart of FR is that simple dogged unremitting persistance to justice and truth. In peace it is scoffed at ... fancier spirits in men and women are preferred.
Simple persistance is the only spirit that survives when all the rest are torn off, broken, demolished. It is based on trust in G-d and the duties he sets before us.
Calling yourself "principled" because you shoot to kill at both sides, doesn't make you so.
What it shows is that you spend your time swatting at gnats while being devoured by a rabid beast. It's smarter to kill the beast first.
What is this bloviated nonsense? Gag.