This is why there needs to be term limits. Each member of congress has only one goal. That is to ensure that he/she is reelected time after time after time. That cannot be reconciled with a President who gets only two terms. A Presidents goal is the protection of the country.
With term limits in place, congress will be forced to do what is right and not what is politically expedient.
This has to be the number one issue for this country. Congress has proved to be irresponsible and not looking after the country’s survival.
Victory is the only op;tion that will benefit Republicans. Surrender will not enhance their reeletion chances. I am suspicious of the referance to civil war. Seems to me it comes more out of a Lakoff framing exercise than reality. It was also part of the antiwar propaganda in the Vietnam war. Then it obscured the backing of Communist forces by china. Now it denies the work of AlQueda and Iran.