"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum." ― Bruce Jackson Topic(s): War More From Bruce Jackson "War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly." "Which suggests something about media and war: it’s not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know." "They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there’s now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you’re next. I don’t buy it." More In War "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."― Jefferson Davis "Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."― Marcus Tullius Cicero "In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash."― Douglas MacArthur