My country, Major, takes a lot of stick because we’re big on high ideals and often fall short on follow-through. We talk the talk better than we walk the walk. But at least we have ideals, even if we sometimes fail to live up to them. Our enemies have no such handicaps. They’re hard men who are utterly unafraid to stab us in the back. The threat they pose to my people right now, and for the past seventeen years, is very great indeed.
Reminds me of the Emerson quote,“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
