Hunches

Long workout today, followed by Fun Run...and tomorrow is legs day.  Obviously, this was not one of my smarter scheduling days.

Anyways, I've been watching some films...up to 396.  "From Stump to Ship" was pretty interesting and cool; "The Tell-Tale Heart," an animated version of the Poe story voiced by James Mason, was also fairly interesting.  Some longer ones are in the cluster, so I suspect the climb to 400 will be proceeding at a less rapid pace...

I was watching the Sunday shows/reading the politics; one thing that got a lot of press was Robert Gates complaining about the GOP candidates and their bomb-them-back-to-the-Stone Age approach; basically, he was saying it was not the right approach and it was not the American way of war.  Maybe on one, but Gates should know better about the second point.  I mean, what was the point of the bomber offensive in World War 2...especially against Japan and the atomic bombs?  In Vietnam, of course, bombing -- at a pace that outpaced that of WW2 -- was generally done indiscriminately.  Hell, even during the "Shock and Awe" campaigns of the Gulf Wars, while we certainly tried to minimize civilian casualties...no one, I think, doubts that collateral damage, if you will, was part of the plan.  I just wonder if the American people would really mind civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS, because, at the end of the day, they are furriners, you know...