It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Most of us are better when things go better.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.