Ocupation: Former Majority leader
Life: b. January 31, 1941
Birthday: January 31
Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.
source: "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.
topic: War, Winning, May, Short Sighted, Machismo