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From: Joseph Motacek (cleanshooterATgmail.com)
Subject: Pyrrhic victory...
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/pyrrhic_victory.html

Few people see war, except as the media portray it, the way it is seen
through the eyes of a soldier. And as a soldier I can attest to the words
said of war in this week's theme. Pyrrhic victory brings so many thoughts
and memories to my mind, the great cost of this war on human life and to
the economy of America. This war seems so futile from the inside, because
you can't tell the difference between the people you want to help and the
people you have to fight. They say there is no civil war in Iraq but what
do you call it when the people that live in a country kill each other
because they have different beliefs?

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From: John Stinson (www.olmillerATauracom.com)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--pyrrhic victory

In the interest of retaining some harmony between our countries, I wouldn't
necessarily put this in the digest but I thought the following of interest:
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i4pyrrhic.htm

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From: Michael Gul (www.mgulATstleonards.vic.edu.au)
Subject: pyrrhic victory

It is not at all the case that "a war is perhaps the only occasion when
killing a person is not just accepted but rewarded." I have the privilege
of teaching my students the basics of the laws of murder. Most of them are
taken aback when I start to focus on the idea of an unlawful killing as
opposed to a lawful one.

There is much lawful killing going on in the world, far away from war zones.
The executioners of Texas, California, Singapore, and China all perform
state-sanctioned killing rituals. Their paypacket surely is a reward by
the State for this service. Furthermore, a police officer shooting down
a gun-toting suspect will also be praised by his fellow citizens for
protecting them from potential harm. As my students can discern at the end
of our course, it's not the killing itself that is the problem: it is the
legal nature of the act that is problematic.

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From: Milan Schonberger (www.schondergATaol.com)
Subject: pyrrhic victory

But even a "war of words" may at times lead to a pyrrhic victory. Consider
the possible scenarios when an argument leads to the use of motor vehicles
and/or guns or when a heated word exchange results in a massive heart
attack. Better solution, I think, is to give much greater consideration to
how important it is to assert ourselves and whether a graceful disengagement
would not be the best "victory". In another words the real meaning of
"pyrrhic victory" depends on the value or quality of human life in proportion
to the cause fought for.

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From: Andrew Pressburger (www.andrew.pressburgerATprimus.ca)
Subject: Pyrrhic victory

One of the outstanding literary illustrations of this expression might be
the litigation Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens's Bleak House,
recently dramatized to critical acclaim by the BBC. In the novel, thanks to
the protracted handling of the case (the proverbial "law's delay"), by the
time the disputed inheritance is awarded to one of the contestants, all of
its originally considerable size had been dissipated by legal costs, the
fruitless triumph driving the poor beneficiary to distraction and ultimately
to an early grave.