Thanks for the recommedation --I'll add it to my list.

Seems to me War IS madness and to be a general requires madness. .

All war, but particularly this war seems to have plenty of it to go around on both sides.

I can hardly think of a "great" general of any war that I don't think of as a bit mad --okay I don't think of Robt. E. Lee as mad--heartbreakingly noble in a war that wasn't ...actually that does sound a bit mad.

Interesting subject (your comments, I mean--not my rambling)