[UA] Pyric Victor?

[R. Menzi]

Kevin Elmore kelmore at rocketmail.com wrote:

> Do you mean a Pyric Victor or a Pyrrhic Victor?

      Well, both seem to work, but I'd say that it was
a mis-spelling.  I blame it on spending the last year
in a country that used ideographs for words and rarely
gets the spelling right.



> And I should point out that the Pyrrhic Victor 
> would be a cool archetype.  

     Thanks.  I figured with the failure-intensive
game like UA is supposed to be, there's alot of it
going around.

     I got it from been talking with my department
head, a retired Chinese military officer about the
"What would happen if we had a war?" thing and found
myself needing to explain that if 3 million US troops
were not enough and additional volunteers and/or
drafting were not sufficient (very possible in a
strict comparison between populations), then the world
would no longer be a place that could support human
life - Mutually Assured Destruction 101.

     I also realized that winning this arguement
against a boss that was part of military that (when he
was a member) viewed my country and its people to be
The Enemy could be, at best, a pyrrhic victory as I
could be looking for a new job shortly.

     I skipped the part about the differences in ICBM
ranges being in favor of a partial survival of the US
and left off saying that China would also destroy the
US and all our allies, and no one could win... like
tick-tack-toe.


Regards,
- Menzi

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