In an excellent essay book-review regarding the Crimean War, the author inserts this bit of poetry:
... Robert Southey’s poem, "The Battle of Blenheim" (1796), [...] poses the same questions about death for no discernible reason. It seems that Old Kaspar’s grandson Peterkin finds a skull, which, it turns out, is not unusual because they live on what was once the site of the famous Battle of Blenheim. Old Kaspar explains:"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun.
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory … ."
"‘But what good came of it at last?’
Quoth little Peterkin.
‘Why that I cannot tell,’ said he.
‘But ’twas a famous victory.’"
Indeed.
We are fortunate, here in America, to have fought some wars which had discernible and necessary outcomes. Those would be the Revolution, the 1812, and Civil Wars.
WWI, Viet Nam, and Afghanistan (all notoriously Democrat-begun or Democrat/Deep State prolonged wars) were questionable, as was The Sandbox #2.
And they were not even famous victories.
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