Fortunately, there is an alternative to the defeatism offered by Senate Democrats and some Republicans.
The 79-19 vote for the Warner amendment is evidence of the onset of creeping defeatism.
She said there was not a sense of defeatism and that pupils were motivated and enthused.
Armies do not triumph with large numbers but are defeated if the spirit of defeatism prevails.
Constant specters of unrelenting dangers risk sowing defeatism and chip away at our own morale.
Or maybe they fear that even a hint of defeatism will increase the panic.
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Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumours, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement.
The sense of defeatism was consigned, at least at the time, to history.
He went on to say that "when you go into those schools you can smell the sense of defeatism".
Yet, there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure.
The central thrust of the bin Laden tape is, by contrast, a message of defeatism: America's defeat in Iraq is inevitable.
The whole dung heap of defeatism and stagnation, from Galbraith to Samuelson, Solow and Thurow--it's all there, summed up in 176 pages!
Such defeatism is being advanced in the halls of Congress even as accounts from Iraq continue to signal that the surge is succeeding.
The Left's defeatism was brought home to me last Thursday during the Ariel University Center of Samaria's conference on Law and Mass Media.
Another factor is a sense of defeatism in Chernobyl-affected people, many of whom had to leave homes their families had lived in for generations.
But as the prospect of war drew closer, pessimism and defeatism were replaced with a grim determination to confront the manifest evil of Nazism.
Pelosi's kindred spirits in defeatism are not prepared to follow her lead at the expense of the troops, whose funding is now being jeopardized.
But when Democrats in the Senate pressed for a timetable, or at least a commitment to withdrawal, they were buried under Republican accusations of "cut and run" defeatism.
The challenge that Hitler presented became the occasion for Churchill and Roosevelt and the lovers of freedom to battle the great diseases of the century: nihilism and defeatism.
Such defeatism usually has less success in the United States.
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He reiterated the warning against protectionism that he gave in a speech to the US Congress earlier this month, calling it "the politics of defeatism and retreat and fear".
MPs, who made Mr Brown their leader without demur, into distancing themselves from him or embracing outright defeatism a panicked fickleness that serves only to dig their collective hole deeper.
And former home secretary Charles Clarke repeated his call for Mr Brown to improve his performance or quit with honour, saying Labour had to "recover the will to win" and reject "fatalist defeatism".
Still, it seems unlikely that the majority of legislators would be willing to be associated with defeatism in Iraq, let alone to champion it, were they absolutely clear about the stakes.
At some point, such behavior breeds not just defeatism.
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