Max Brooks Quote

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (ed. Broadway Books, 2006) - ISBN: 9780307351937