War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

War is a profane thing.

Neither Powell nor I wanted a ground war,

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.