Back on Topic Re: Fw: OT A Military Historian Speaks

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 26309

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lisa-Ann Cooner" <kira at k...> wrote:
> Dr. Tony Kern, Lt Col, USAF (Ret) wrote:
>  
> This war will be  won or lost by the American citizens, not 
> diplomats, politicians or soldiers.
> They plan to fight a battle of attrition, hoping to drag the battle
> out until the  American public loses its will to fight.
> If we  are to win, it will be because we have what it takes to 
> persevere through a  few more hits, learn from our mistakes, 
> improvise, and adapt. If we can do that, we will eventually prevail. 

What does he think counts as 'winning' for them? I know what counts
as winning for Lord Voldemort (see, I drag it back on topic), which
is to conquer the whole Earth so there is no hiding place for his 
enemies, killing all the people he has grudges against and quite a 
few others just for fun, and then destroying the whole planet 
including his followers and himself. I suppose that, in theory, 
Voldemort COULD accomplish that (because immortality gives him 
unlimited time) if all wizarding folk (except a few imcompetent 
altho' romantic losers) gave up fighting against him. I am not 
confident that even an unopposed Voldemort could figure out the 
MEANS to destroy the whole planet before the Sun goes Nova and beats 
him to it. Thus, even if the human species loses (being all killed 
off except a few kept as miserable slaves and even fewer kept as 
sycophants), still Voldemort would not have won.