Tsk, tsk....shame on MSNBC. Even during the darkest days ....WWII reporters would never, never say that we were going to lose the battle...
or the war! They knew better, then. Anyone can find something to criticize. That's easy. It's difficult remaining positive and courageous in the midst of a war.
“Pessimism never won any battles.”--Dwight Eisenhower
It hurts the morale of the troops. Press...knock it off! (rant over)
I'm having a hard time keeping my mom positive in all of this. She lurks on FR and she said that she feels better once she's been on for an hour or so.
Her biggest fear is not that we are going to lose the war, but that we will lose public opinion. In an email to me just a few minutes ago she said "My despair is not that we will not prevail, but that the public will fold. I lived through this before."
My dad was a captain in the Army during the Vietnam era and she said that this brings back all of the horrible antiwar sentiment that happened to them during that time.
How do I convince her that this is not history repeating itself?