re: Threats
"But I wonder, gb, what mighty thing, what glorious triumph, we've achieved in Iraq."
You need to dare to achieve triumph.
Read it again:
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt
Those that live in the grey twilight can not know victory.