Once More into the Breach
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with …[the] dead! —Henry V, Act III, Scene I
What was that tactic Lieutenant Colonel, a mining engineer, employed in the Union cause at Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1864 “Battle of the Crater”? Oh, yeah. He dug a tunnel under Confederate ramparts and placed barrels of gunpowder in a chamber below the unsuspecting Rebels. The scheme, which in short order backfired, killed more than 300 Confederate soldiers and opened a hole in the Rebel defensive position.
“Backfired?” You say?
Yes, the crater became a death trap for Union soldiers as Rebel reinforcements rushed to replace their wounded and killed. Standing on higher ground, the Confederates had an advantage over Union soldiers trying to run through the crater.
Joe Biden’s Crater
So, on his first day in office, Joe Biden “blew a hole” in the border’s defenses. In a reversal of fortune, the Union saw illegal migrants in the millions rush through the Biden Crater, eventually leading to Biden’s recent attempt to close the breach he created. But too little, too late: Many Union citizens lost their lives to illegal criminal activity and fentanyl. Biden’s poll numbers on border security have fallen. The scheme has backfired.
In the contest between the Union and South-of-the-Border rebels, Biden has lost the “Battle of the Crater.” As in Shakespeare’s Henry V, do we close up the breach with the bodies of those who died because of Biden’s scheme?
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with …[the] dead! —Henry V, Act III, Scene I
What was that tactic Lieutenant Colonel, a mining engineer, employed in the Union cause at Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1864 “Battle of the Crater”? Oh, yeah. He dug a tunnel under Confederate ramparts and placed barrels of gunpowder in a chamber below the unsuspecting Rebels. The scheme, which in short order backfired, killed more than 300 Confederate soldiers and opened a hole in the Rebel defensive position.
“Backfired?” You say?
Yes, the crater became a death trap for Union soldiers as Rebel reinforcements rushed to replace their wounded and killed. Standing on higher ground, the Confederates had an advantage over Union soldiers trying to run through the crater.
Joe Biden’s Crater
So, on his first day in office, Joe Biden “blew a hole” in the border’s defenses. In a reversal of fortune, the Union saw illegal migrants in the millions rush through the Biden Crater, eventually leading to Biden’s recent attempt to close the breach he created. But too little, too late: Many Union citizens lost their lives to illegal criminal activity and fentanyl. Biden’s poll numbers on border security have fallen. The scheme has backfired.
In the contest between the Union and South-of-the-Border rebels, Biden has lost the “Battle of the Crater.” As in Shakespeare’s Henry V, do we close up the breach with the bodies of those who died because of Biden’s scheme?
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