Naw...you just don't get his meaning, that's all.

I think that Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet would have found much truth to ponder in Lao-Tse, following their experiences in the great Civil War. And Ulysses S. Grant too. A victory IS observed like a funeral, by those who have truly grasped the cost of that victory. Wellington made some such observation too, after Waterloo. No war is worth the loss of even one mother's child.

It all looks so glorious at the start...bands playing, people cheering, flags waving, cavalry charging. It looks like one giant mess of tragedy at the end. And it is. Wise men do not love weapons, and they use them only when there is no other choice whatsoever. Unwise men always find plenty of handy excuses to kill the "evil ones" and seek glory.