In times of war a third rail exists that is more powerful than all the political correctness in the world. If you touch it you are at least made to wish you were dead. It is criticism of the war or any aspect of the war or admitting to understand what most people understand but do not speak, the reasons for the actions of the enemy. Decades later, sometimes hundreds of years later, suggesting the other side had reasons for its actions still has consequences. Even a century and a half after the American Civil War one has to tread … Continue reading The Third Rail