One of the first things they taught us shiny new butterbars at the Fort Benning School for Wayward Boys is that you don’t stop on the objective. You attack through it to push the opposition back to where they can’t even reach thr ground you want to hold.

To completely mix my metaphors here, compromising with Democrats or Islamic fundamentalists is like trying to compromise with your ex’s divorce lawyer: every concession is taken not as a sign of good faith but of weakness, suggesting they can get more.