There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
The easiest way to do something is properly.
If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?