Unconditional Surrender

Tomorrow is January 14. It has two anniversaries of note to history that I would like to highlight for Americans today.
The first is 1784, which is Ratification Day. It was the day when the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War. Peace with the other side is possible. Even after a long fight.
The second is 1943, when the Casablanca Conference took place. This was a meeting between our President Roosevelt, Britsh Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and others to plan the next phase of World War Two. The reason this is an important anniversary in my reckoning, is that it is where Roosevelt borrowed a phrase from Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, and said that the allies would seek only “Unconditional Surrender” of the Axis forces.

We are today facing an uprising not seen in this country since the Civil War, and the last action taken was Impeachment of the sitting President for the second time. This time for inciting to riot those who attacked our national Capitol. The process of electing our leaders is under threat by those in the minority, who having lost a free and fair election seek to impose their will on the majority. They do so with threats to leaders and with direct attacks against the body politic. As the Speaker of the House of Representatives said today, We do not negotiate with Terrorists, I add:
We should not accept anything less than Unconditional Surrender from the traitor that we have Impeached, and the seditious mob that follow him.

To the Republic we stand.