End up? If it's a war of extermination I know where I'd prefer to end up.
I bet he can, you know? Say what you like about him, but his is an incredibly well-drilled, experienced and professional unit. They're like the Waffen SS of stadium rock.
:hehe: Absolutely does. He famously writes a setlist and then after 5 or 6 songs inevitably screws it up and throws it away, playing according to his and the corwd's mood. And of course he takes requests from the crowd, especially enjoying challenging the band to play a song they might not have played for some years.
They have been playing together for over 40 years, so you'd expect them to be reasonably good at it, wouldn't you?
This isn't a conventional war. It's a classic Maoist guerilla war where the guerilla swims like a fish in the sea of his ethnic and religious community. And, as has been shown in successful counter-insurgencies, the only way to defeat such people is to drain or poison the 'sea', thus making it impossible for them to live in it.