To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past.

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism.

To say that we are mired in stalemate

seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion.

On the off-chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next

few months we must test the enemy's intentions in case this is indeed his last big

gas before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this report that

the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victims, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend

democracy and did the best they could.

This is Walter Rond and welcome to another episode of the Lions Lead by Donkeys Podcast.

I'm Joe, this is Nick and we are on our 10th episode 10 episodes how you feeling man who knew yeah

Who actually thought we would make one episode let alone 10 we were drunk that night yeah I think

we drunk ordered all this shit off Amazon yeah we did so how you doing right

now doing pretty good.

Still drinking old crow.

Yeah, we're working our way through the bottle of old crow

and it's not good.

I feel like I am full of Mexican food.

Like I ate way too much before I got here and our room that we record in our studio

slash office slash guest room is

That last layer. Yeah, it's about 90 degrees and I'm not sure if I'm if I have like meat sweats from

fajitas or it's just from Washington

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