Sunday - October 12, 2008

STAND UP, SHAKE IT OFF, AND GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT.

MY DEEPEST THANKS TO FRIEND DREW WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS TECH. HAVE ALLOWED ME TO POST THIS TOON OF OUR SARAH, WHICH I ORIGIANLLY GOT FROM THE TELEGRAPH A WEEK AGO BUT HAD NO IDEA HOW TO GET RID OF THE PRINTED ARTICLE THAT SURROUNDED IT, AND GET IT TO DO THIS.

I’M AFRAID TO ASK HOW HE DID THIS.  ANYWAY ... THANKS.

NOW THEN ... TO SOMETHING TURTLER POSTED UNDER COMMENTS.  IT DESERVES A REGULAR POST RIGHT HERE. AND I SHOULD THANK T. ALSO BECAUSE I HAVE NOT BEEN FEELING TOO UP ABOUT THINGS LATELY.  BUT T. IS RIGHT.  WE CAN NOT JUST LAY DOWN AND LET EM RUN US OVER NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS LOOK.  SO THANKS TURTLER, FOR THIS.

I cannot guarentee that Obama will not win.

I cannot guarentee that our political system will recover from its present corruption.

I cannot guarentee that we will remain a nation worthy of its past.

I cannot guarentee that any effort we make will not be in vain.

HOWEVER, THAT DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIE DOWN IN A FOXHOLE AND DIE WITHOUT AN EFFORT!

In the pledge, we swear ourselves to this nation, its flag, its Democratic Reptublic, and its Constitition. We are obliged to serve and support it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And in this we cannot waver.

But you say that there is no use, we are certain to loose, even if we do defeat Obama.

However, and this is purely my opinion, that does not matter. We are obliged to stand and do our damndest, even if there is no hope for success.

Why?

Because, imagine what the world would look like if there were no people to stand up and fight the good fight even though they were certain they would be destroyed?

What would have happened at Theromopylae?

And, once more, history has been changed by futile stands against impossible odds by people with no real expectation of winning.

It is entirely possible that the Western Allies in North Africa would have been overrun had it not been for the brave resistance of a group of hodge podge Free French and Palestinian Jews who fought the full wrath of the Afrika Korps at Bir Hakeim and Bir el-Hamet after the Allied disaster at Gazala.

If it were not for the ultimately futile Armenian resistance agianst the Turks in WWI, it is entirely possible that the Turks could have turned the full force of their troops (who outnumbered the Allied forces in the area) around and pushed the Western Allies out of Mesopotamia and Palestine, which would have given them control of the Suez Canal, thus greatly weakening the Allied Cause.

Were it not for Charles de Gaulle going to Britain in defiance of the tactily legit Vichy government, it is possible that the French Colonies would have fallen to Germany.

The bottom line is that we must be willing to accept defeat but fight anyway. For without the willingness to make sacrifices and even suffer defeat for lost causes, Democracy would have been snuffed out long ago.

SO STAND UP, SHAKE IT OFF, AND GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
Posted by Turtler United States 10/11/2008 at 03:32 PM

Posted by Drew458     on 10/12/2008 at 10:43 AM   
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