"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country…”
What is happening in the Persian golf right now should’ve happened decades ago, not months ago. We have a President who is less concerned with being reelected, and more concerned with doing what is right, not only for this country, but an ungrateful global community in general.
The fact that there are so many people in our Republic today who are deterred from doing what is right and just, not by bloody footprints in the snow, or a series of defeats on a battlefield, but by the prospect of higher gasoline prices, or the fear of a defeat in midterm elections defined exactly the kind of modern “Summer Soldiers” and “Sunshine Patriots” that we see both on this forum, and in the modern world today.
They are the kinds of kind of “soldiers” who would turn and run not at the approach of a glistening steel bayonet on the end of a barrel of a Brown Bess musket, but at the mere prospect of a gas station sign being changed upwards by a gas station employee.
Well said.
Amen, FRiend!