Thursday, March 10, 2005

[1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's first successful experiment with the telephone]

[1945 - Firebombing of Tokyo, U.S. warplanes drop 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo, 16 square miles incinerated, and 80,000 to 130,000 Japanese civilians killed]

[1970 - US Army captain charged with My Lai, Vietnam, war crimes]

Winning The Peace

Perhaps the current leadership could learn from the Carthaginian Barca,
who is quoted in Livy's History at XXII, 51, as follows:
"You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it."

William's Whimsical Words:

There be not many Carthaginians about these days.

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