I just don't see much point in lying to myself. I have enough of that from without. But if I am trying to turn a thing around I want a true assessment of the particulars: like the character of my enemy, his weaknesses, his strenghts, my weaknesses, my strenghts and on and on.

Lord I would hate to have to go to war with most of the assumptions that I hear on this forum. Under estimate your enemy and you are far spent. Over estimate your self and you may as well put the collar around your own neck.

Wisedom is usually never asked to sit in at war counsel and I can agree at times it can be disarming. But it always needs to be heard.

No one has to keep us down, with the thinking of our so called intelligencia we are doing a great job so to speak.

The man who is most able to take the blame for his part in the fiasco is usually the man who will come up out of the miry clay. But the man who will look to lay all the blame else where will likely float off and sink to the bottom reaching to others.