“In war, those who blindly charge across open ground against fortified positions may die gloriously, and may be the subject of poems and songs for generations to come, but they don’t win wars.”
Not necessarily true. I believe hopeless last stands inspire and rally citizens into brave action. Remember the Alamo? It definitely drove previously uninvolved citizens to new heights of grim determination and the war was won. We in Texas honor them as the winners of our War for Independence, and not just in poems. (Do non-Texans know that the Alamo is such sacred ground that visitors are required to speak in low voices, and children are reminded of this or asked to leave?)
Unfortunately, as you are pointing out, those massacred at the Alamo didn’t live to see it and were men of unbelievable bravery that is seldom seen. We need brave, stalwart Congressional reps who need only figuratively “fall on their swords” and risk the hit of
being one-termers in order to do their sworn duty to the People who elected them. Do such politicians even exist?
