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What is your concern - that we won't be capable of pulling your fat out of the fire the next time the Germans or the Russians threaten to disrupt the pot party in De Wallen? Our military may be going through one of the inevitable cycles suffered by institutions subject to the whims of politicians, but until it's on par with yours (somehow I doubt you'll rise that far nor will we fall the equivalent distance) don't presume to lecture. I'll worry about our military when the SEIU is organizing on military bases. (Oh wait - they already do that in the NL.)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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