I realize this has nothing to do with Lesotho, but this blog is mine and therefore cannot be entirely focused. Anyway I read an article about a speech given by Kurt Vonnegut at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. In it he quotes Abraham Lincoln as follows:
"Trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory, that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood �that serpent�s eye, that charms to destroy, he plunged into war.�
Lincoln was saying this towards James Polk, who was President at the time, in regards to the Mexican War. So it goes.