Sweet is war to those who know it not. Pindar with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.-- Pythagoras Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. -- Carl Sandburg Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. -- Mahatma Gandhi We should not march into Baghdad ... To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability. Ð George H. W. Bush, 41st U. S. President from "A World Transformed," 1998 As long as there are men, there will be wars. -- Albert Einstein Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. -- Euripides |