The Art of War

The Art of War

I read this book on and off. It's a book that you just can't consume in one sitting, no matter how great a reader you are. You have to take pieces, a day at a time, sort of like Dalai Lama's books. You have to read a bit and let it sink in, and see how each idea applies to daily life. So here's today's bit of The Art of War.

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
--Sun Tzu

I wasn't thrilled, but accepted the war. If there was a slight chance that Saddam had WMD, it was enough to go to war. But more than a year later, there's no WMD, Saddam's been caught, Iraq's still arid and grim as Mordar, our young soldiers are getting tainted and viewed in a negative fashion, the president's lost a chunk of his integrity, and even Wall Street doesn't look too great. It's time to bring the soldiers home.

So what's all this about moving soldiers from S. Korea to Iraq? We all know N. Korea's actually got stuff to make WMD's. Someone needs to get their priorities straight.