Sherman was right.
“War is many things, but war is mostly hell. The more brutal it is, the quicker it will be over. War was the remedy our enemies chose......and I prepare to give them all the war they want.”
-William Tecumseh Sherman
The Sherman quote that was in the rant I send out on 9/12/01 to about 40 friends:
“We cannot change the hearts of those people, but we can make war so terrible...[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.”
WWII was the last truly successful U.S. war. It is no coincidence that it was the last total war we fought.