Author: Governor SwillGovernor Swill Date: Mar 28, 2007 10:18
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:20:12 GMT, Jeff Blanks mindspring.com>
wrote:
>>>"All wars are lost", as J.R.R. Tolkien put it.
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>> Aren't all games thereby rendered meaningless?
>
>If you want to equate war with a game, I guess so.
Life is made up of games. Life itself is a game. There are little
games (flirting at the night spot) and big games (corporate
competition in markets). War is a very big and dangerous game often
played on the scale of nations.
"The loss of a pawn seems a small matter. But if he is promoted, he
may checkmate me." -- Elizabeth I (regarding the marriage of Lord
Darnley to the Queen of Scots)
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