Wonder what he really meant

"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

Not many would be really familiar with this quote, including me. Not until the release of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down in 2001. Interestingly there is no documented proof that this quote appears in any one of Plato's dialogues. Anyway, I'm not interested in verifying the authenticity of this attribution.

Irrespective of who might have originally come up with this quote, it is most certainly an interesting one.

There is always something to fight about. There is always a conflict of interest.

After all, "The purpose of all war is peace" - St. Augustine. Cant help but accept the innate truth in that quote.