I suppose there is something quaint about the idea of deserving victory. After all, the idea of “my strength is as that of ten, because my heart is pure” has been pretty decisively proven not to be the case.
Still, I think it’s a good sentiment. Whether or not you are victorious, there is something of value in striving to be the side that deserves victory — through the justice of your cause, through personal valor, through … whatever.
So I’ve included, up by the yellow ribbon in the sidebar, a copy of the WWII Churchill poster, as a reminder that it’s not enough to simply in Iraq have the bigger guns and the deadlier weapons — we need to be sure that we deserve to win, by our cause, by what we do during the fighting, and by what we do after.
(reminder of the poster via Ad Orientem)