We are coming to think of wars as fought between two parties as if they were an arrangement between two contracting merchants. ‘The Memoirs of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord’, French Diplomat 1754 - 1838 [... le plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...]
Gerald's post of the week:
Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men actually spend thinking.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
extract from Shakespeare's Sonnet 25