Benghazi, etc.: Are Obama’s Actions Those of a Tyrant?

Wringing our hands and bickering about the GOP as the President and his apparatchiks dismantle the Republic isn’t actually a plan for victory. Personally, Chris Christie is only a threat to me if he’s within arm’s length of my Krispy Kreme, but his capitulation, along with Romney’s and Krauthammer’s, is the equivalent of the lords abandoning the field at Falkirk when Wallace waved the sword.

Chesterton had it right when he wrote, “The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”

What’s that, you cry: “The glass is half empty?” – Look, smash the damn glass! I don’t know if we will win or we will lose but I do know that I’m in the 300. I don’t quite know if I’m following Gideon or Leonidas or if we’ll be playing a triumph or a funeral dirge when the Shih Tzu hits the fan, but I do know that I hold a sword and I’ll stand my ground.

Win, lose – doesn’t matter! The outcome is not the issue. The issue is “Am I faithful?” SEMPER FIDELIS is the Marine code, not SEMPER VINCIT. I’m tired of these pussy-willows that won’t enter the battle unless they’re sure of a victory. They seem to bloom in every crisis and they’re the “summer soldiers” that Paine rebukes in The Crisis:

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 his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman … Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

So, to Charles, Bill, Chris and Victor Davis: “Dietrich – Up,” Lassies! Real men ride to the sound of the roar!