No commander knows whether they will be victorious at the outset of a battle. Only God knows the sure outcome. You may have the odds against you but then do you not fight? I suppose some would not but many have gone into battle with little in their favor except a belief in God and that God was on their side.
It is a good thing that Washington didn’t have your sage advice. I have read the stories of battles during the Revolution where the odds were greatly against the Patriots. Indeed, a majority wanted to avoid confrontation with the British. The Americans had no army nor a navy. The British ruled the seas. They were a super power. What reasoned chance did a ragtag group of cobbled together farmers and townsmen, many without weapons, have against a well trained and funded British army and navy?
Washington got down on his knees and prayed to God knowing that the odds were greatly against his men. Yet they prevailed.
What of Capt. John Paul Jones who took on the British at sea during the Revolutionary War? When asked to surrender he famously replied “I have only begun to fight!” Again, with all odds against him and a greatly inferior navy he prevailed. I would not consider Washington nor Jones “stupid”.
I would also not consider impeachment charges against a tyrannical and lawless president who has destroyed our country, put our lives in danger, lied, stole money from our citizens to redistribute to others and enabled an invasion on our borders failing to protect our sovereignty a “reckless assault”.
The problem is that we have too many who are afraid. Afraid of what the other side is going to say about us, afraid of making Obama a martyr (whatever that would mean)or that this is some kind of political trap that the left wants us to step into or how the media will present it. Baloney! These are all cowardice excuses. Impeachment is a DUTY.
News flash: The left will always paint their enemies in a bad light and say bad things & lie about them. The media will always dislike us and say bad things and lie about us. If Obama is a made a martyr those to whom he is will never like us anyway and will always lie and say bad stuff about us.
Since the repubs do not plan on overturning Obamacare, shutting down the government, putting the reins on government spending, closing our borders or much of anything else shouldn’t they be doing something to earn their salaries? What else do they have to do with their time? They certainly haven’t had an aversion to running dog-and-pony show investigations that have gone nowhere.
And unless you have a crystal ball you have no idea how this would turn out. I believe that the majority of the American people are despairing of their representatives stopping this self-made king and would WELCOME and support any move to impeach Obama. With enough pressure and the American public DEMANDING impeachment you have no idea who may vote which way.
You want to compare a move to impeach to going into a battle in war? Really? Who is going to die here? I don’t think there will be any loss of life if we attempt to impeach Obama but I can guaranty you that people will die if we do not.
Good luck convincing John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Ruling Class Oligarchy of that.
They are going to laugh at you in your face and call you a 'nutcase'.
We are not the same people our Forbears were in terms of honor and morality, God is not going to honor a wayward people - and we suffer tyranny because of our collective sins and apathy as a people.
Hard truth - but it is what it is.
The GOP Ruling Class is not afraid of Obama and what he has done.
THEY LIKE what he is doing and what his party has done, and in the tradition of Teddy and Woodrow - the GOP seeks to do what it began over 100 years ago.
We are a Fascist Oligarchy with a defacto dictator for an Executive.
The longer it takes for the American people to wake up to that reality - the more people are going to suffer and the greater the cost will be to avoid what they intend to do to us all.
Because it is going to take thinking beyond fixing it within a corrupted system that no longer operates within the bounds created for it - to arrest what this government has morphed into.
There is exactly one type of person that does not want the Constitution followed. A liberal.
The founders would puke in disgust at the cowardice displayed by Republicans on the impeachment issue. And for the exact reasons your excellent post laid out.