"Once I was called a "defeatist.""
Once in a while, a person's label fits them. How's the thumb?
Too bad your's doesn't - "Frank Discussion." You obviously have nothing to offer, so you post an idiotic insult.
Our enemy is essentially a cult whose soldiers want to die - as long as they can take some of us with them. They are well financed, they are patient - remember, for them this has been going on since the 1980s or before. They have a political arm: CAIR or the British Muslim Associaiton etc. They live among us and use our own political correctness and our laws and freedoms to not only protect themselves but to gain more followers (prison ministries) and the ACLU and the rest of the "useful idiots" are laying out the welcome mat. Our own leaders refer to our enemy as "The Religion of Peace" instead of what they are - the Cult of Death. As a nation, we're not facing the fact that the Muslims have said unequivocally that they want to destroy Western civilization and replace it with Islam.
You can make your snide comments, but our nation is in grave danger. IMO, we're not facing the enemy but making it easier for them to ultimately win. It's not defeatism, it's an analysis of the situation.