Obamlet

With my apologies to Will Shakespeare!

To surge, or not to surge: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous battles,

Or put down arms against a sea of troubles,

And by withdrawing end them? To retreat: to fight

No more; and by retreat to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To retreat, to leave;

To leave: perchance to lose: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that leaving, what defeat may come

When we have shuffled off this Afghan soil,

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of a long war;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of polls,

The oppressor’s wrong, the talking head’s contumely,

The pangs of pacifists, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his swift exit make

With a curt order? who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary war,

But that the dread that some would cry “defeat,”

That vicious accusation from whose bourn

No politician returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!

The fair Nobel Committee! Wimps, in thy orisons

Be all my sins forgotten.]

Source: Obamlet