Just War Tradition's debt to sensitive men

It's funny (well, to me at least) that the origins of the modern rules of war alluded to in the post below can be traced back to Cicero, the great Roman statesman and orator.

Read what Wikipedia has to say about him:

During the chaotic latter half of the first century BC, marked by Civil Wars and the dictatorship of C. Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional Republican government; however, his career as a statesman was marked by inconsistencies and a tendency to shift his position in response to changes in the political climate. His vacillations may be attributed to his sensitive and impressionable personality; he was prone to overreact to political and private changes. "Would that he had been able to endure prosperity with greater self-control and adversity with more fortitude!" wrote C. Asinius Pollio, a contemporary Roman statesman and historian.[3][4] His inability to persevere with calm, unswerving determination was his main weakness.[5]

Sounds just like a number of modern politicians.