He's not wrong, exactly.

A glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel?

This is how winning feels, in the early stages. It feels like scorching heat, freezing cold, sweat, pain, agony, injury, and loss of life. That is always how it feels in wartime before victory comes.

That's the view of some wingnut blogger quoted by Steve Benen. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But it's not wrong, exactly.

Winning a war can indeed feel like "scorching heat, freezing cold, sweat, pain, agony, injury, and loss of life." That is, indeed, how it feels before victory comes. It's also exactly how it feels before defeat comes.

It's war itself, not winning or losing, that feels like "scorching heat, freezing cold, sweat, pain, agony, injury, and loss of life." There's really not a lot more to it, win or lose.

Which is why, of course, a sane government never starts an unnecessary war or pursues a futile one.