If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.
You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.