You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'
