Some advice for Bush, from the Greatest Military Leader of All Time.

[johnaries]

Sun-tsu's book "The Art of War" has not only proved to be the greatest military strategy book of all time, it has been applied to business and personal growth with great success.

I have selected a few quotes that I felt were especially pertinent to the situation we find ourselves in today. You can read the entire translation at:
http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html

26. Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
7. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
19. In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

20. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

III. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM

1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
6. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.

There is much more....

[jobycom]

1. I hear Bush bought the book to study

but he thought it was a book of paintings of dead people and stuff, and when he couldn't find any pictures, he used the pages for rolling paper. I'm not sure he understood what all those black marks on the pages were.

[man4allcats]

4. "Study" is beyond

Bush. His daddy paid for his Ivy League MBA.


Impeach Bushco!

[bananarepublican]

5. If it's not a pop-up, forget it! n/t

[durtee librul]

2. Oh drat, here I thought the advice to him

would be to quit office and go ride his bike or clear brush. dang. Foiled again.

[johnaries]

3. Silly, you know he doesn't read. But...

since he thinks he talks to God, maybe a speaker under his pillow with the message "you must resign, you must resign..."

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