Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Getting involved in a war without being prepared to do what's necessary to win it was the real madness. As Jacky Fisher, former Admiral of the Fleet put it: 'The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.'

This is a lesson the Americans seem oddly unwilling to learn.
Getting involved in a war they couldn't win would be a better way of putting it, and yes it was madness.