My Ol' Man was a WWII vet. A Coastguardsman manning an LCI
landing craft in the ETO (European Theater of Operations). Hit the
beaches at Sicily, Salerno and Normandy (he always said Salerno
was the worst, but that's a whole other story). Anyway, as a kid,
I was utterly fascinated by war and always asking him about it.

One day, he finally told me: "No one ever wins a war."

He was right. No one really won WWII, we just got a new, cold war.
Vietnam? Millions dead in a land laced with dioxins. Korea, more dead,
forever divided. Iraq? Does anyone really think ANYONE will win in
Iraq?

Like Krishnamurti once asked, what is the fate of a nation that prepares for war? The end of the Kaliyug just gets uglier and uglier...