I’ve been thinking the same thoughts. Makes me think of the Ten Thousand. I don’t like that I am having these thoughts.
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,130593,00.html
If you want bad thoughts think of Elphinstone in 1842.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Elphinstone%27s_Army
There is just so much bad news anymore. I can’t remember so much just plain dagger like news that is all bad that keeps niggling at us day after day, not in the last 50 years. It come from every direction and is of every type. Any good news is lost in the din of bad.