“Wars are about winning, not futile symbolic gestures that leave you worse off.”
Says the guy that was a photographer in the Marines.
I guess King Leonidas, the 300 Spartans, and the 700 Thespians should have let Xerxes and the Persians walk into Greece.
Someone needs to explain the difference between tactical and strategic victory to Mr Sowell. Very often tactical defeats have turned into strategic advances, and vice versa.