"Yes, so much better to deal with death and war and all the damned incompetence and backstabbing amongst people who ares upposedly leading us and on our side. The war be damned." His voice is not quite as precisely calm as he would like, the inflection rising slightly alongside his annoyance.

"I suppose you know the feeling of having done nothing but fight war? The last twenty or more years of my life have been that and I am damned tired. Damned tired."