The no doubt hardest life lesson for me to learn was this: Surrender isn't about winning and losing. It is simply about the cessation of conflict.

War in general, is good business. Particularly at this point in time where no enemy is strong enough to withstand the US and it only takes a few flag draped caskets to really keep people in line.

We've been in Afghanistan 16 years. Sixteen. Years. We've dropped enough ordinance on them to bomb every man, woman and child into the stone age. Where is there any appropriate return on that? The bottom line of the Dow. Only.

Thanks. Just thanks. I'll try to make the next one.