“Tit for tat is a liberal value.”
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True, but nobody should be proud of being involved in stupidity like this.
We're talking Democrats. They don't deal in honesty, why should we? You don't win wars by being nice, and we are in a war to save the Constitution.
I’d rather be proud of doing this than proud of doing nothing.
It will give me more satisfaction than you will have when we are sitting in the gulag together.
I guess we shouldn’t have dressed up like Injuns and dumped that tea into Boston Harbor, either...
I once felt the same way until I watched "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) several years ago, and heard the speech of Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff the exiled German Army friend from WWI of the Colonel, in which he said that Britain faced the option of following traditional notions of honourable warfare or to "fight dirty" in the face of such an evil enemy as Nazi Germany. If we only take the high road we will lose against the evil enemy.
It doesn't matter if you die in captivity with pride when your whole civilization has perished with you. That's why we elected President Trump. He knows how to fight dirty too.