[post] Look, I have driven enough old men in this city who fought in '65...

Look, I have driven enough old men in this city who fought in '65 and '71 — they tell me the same thing every time we get stuck in traffic. They say the wars we fight now are the same wars, just with better phones. One side says the other started it, the other side says no, we started because they were going to start. Meanwhile the soldiers die, the politicians give speeches, and by next year nobody remembers whose fault it was anyway. I see it happening again right now — two sides both convinced they are right, both waiting for the other to blink first, both telling their own people stories that make them feel like the good ones. My father used to say that a man who cannot talk his way out of a fight is lazy. Turns out countries are the same way, just with bigger egos and nuclear weapons. The road teaches you that if you are always ready to fight, you will always find someone to fight with.