In that same speech, Dick Gephardt promised his listeners that if he were president he would "never settle for a quick psychic victory." I presume that he is not referring to employing spiritualists or mediums in his military but rather to a "Pyrrhic victory". You will recall (better than Mr Gephardt) Plutarch's history of the King of Epirus who was called in by his fellow Greeks to battle Roman forces. Pyrrhus beat the Romans but his army suffered such heavy casualties that he was said to have remarked "One more such victory and we are lost."
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