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Here is a quote from a Sci-fi book about how to achieve true victory:
"What is victory? Is it to defeat your enemy on the field of battle? Is it to simply repules his armies and slay his misguided warriors? No, this is only the very beginning! True victory is to crush your foes utterly, to shatter his armoured legions and run down his fleeing troops as they scatter. Pursue them to their lairs and burn them out. Burst into his unholy temples, smash down his icons and topple his foul idols. Burn his heretical works and leave no stone upon stone. Slaughter his followers, their families and their livestock lest any of their taint remain. And when that is done, put the ruins to the torch. Any that have dealt with them or given them succor must be obliterated, for memory is insidious and though you have crushed their will and their bodies they may yet return. Send warrior scribes to excise the records of their name, expunge their deeds from the annals of history and remove even the memory of your foe's existance. Only then have you truly won. This is the meaning of victory."
Pretty brutal and biblical stuff, but I do think that is the only way to achieve total and uncontested victory. Of course it is much easier said than done, and I doubt anyone actually has the stomach to do it.
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If there exists anything mightier than destiny, then it is the courage to face destiny unflinchingly. -Geibel
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -Marcus Aurelius
Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? -GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly
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