"Nothing succeeds like success"
>"In the end, all that counts are the results."
So, Vietnam was a success?
Iaq is a success?
Afganistan is "going to be" a success come hell or high water?
If the Brits and Russians can't tame them, we can??
Define "success".
>"It is usually left to John Q to clean up the mess made by the thinkers."
I agree, but then again they are also USED by those very same "thinkers" when they decide to forgo diplomatic negotiations and embargos and shock and awe the hell out of them!
(Usually back room political contracts are being handed out along with spread sheets of future earnings.)