I don't believe this is a time for defeatism. But I do not underestimate the scale of the challenges we now face.
For us defeatism is a crime and to strive for victory in the War of Resistance is an inescapable duty.
My immediate personal response is that Levitt's view is irresponsible defeatism, which I find repugnant.
We must firmly oppose all wrong policies which run counter to it and combat national defeatism and the pessimism and despair it engenders.
The hopelessness of this arrangement resulted in a number of mutinies on the French side, motivated neither by defeatism nor by ideology, but rather by the sheer horror of trench warfare.
But for all its confusion, the aftermath of the rose and orange revolutions still offers plenty of evidence to counter such defeatism.
