[Colonel_Flagg]

This is not the hill to pick to battle over. It's too small an amount; too little a deficit impact; too late in the game.

It's like Winston Churchill said: "We will wave at them on the beaches, we will hold cocktail parties on the landing grounds, we shall compliment the Majority Leader in the fields and in the streets, but when they get to the hills, by God we'll stand up and fight."

We're big enough to multi-task, sir. My heartfelt wish was that we would have done so.

[Lazamataz]

It's like Winston Churchill said: "We will wave at them on the beaches, we will hold cocktail parties on the landing grounds, we shall compliment the Majority Leader in the fields and in the streets, but when they get to the hills, by God we'll stand up and fight." We're big enough to multi-task, sir. My heartfelt wish was that we would have done so.

You said this all with great eloquence! LOL! I do empathize, but I still hold firm in my conviction that there are battles to pick.

For example, let us stay with the Churchill analogy: When the English were cornered in Dunkirk, with the channel between their armies and their home, should they have stood firm there? Was that the proper hill to die on? Or, perhaps, was it wisest to let a little battle go, so that World War II could be won?