When after many battles past ...

[Occam's Banana]

Saw this over at LRC (https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/war-2/) & thought some here might like it ...

War by Francis Moore (English astrologer & almanac maker, b.1657 - d.1715?)

When after many battles past,
Both tir’d with blows, make peace at last,
What is it, after all, the people get?
Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

(Almanac - Monthly Obserations for 1829, p.23)
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[Zippyjuan]

Sadly true.