And at no point will they question their tactics or their behaviour. They will remain forever puzzled as to why they are hated and the locals take up arms against them. keep to the Fen Causeway
Learning from the Russians in Afghanistan or (say) from Napoleon in the Peninsula war is not possible because those were the bad guys against freeedom fighters, not the good guys against terrorists. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
