The Persian Gulf War didn’t last for six weeks, it lasted for 20 years. Vietnam is a Poltergeist through this whole thing. It had a psychological dimension as a consequence of Vietnam that transcended Saddam Hussein in the invasion of Kuwait somehow, in ways that made this war larger than it really was.

—Rick Atkinson

A look in his eyes as if he knows not where he must be, only that he must be there.

—Alan Moore