politics

If only our proud nation's Commander in Chief and his minions had picked up a copy of The Art of War, wisdom from a man that lived 500 years B.C. (or B.C.E. if you're so inclined), before setting off to war on foreign soil.

Just two pages in, Chapter 1, Line 2-3:

"When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, the men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

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

Ch. 1 Ln 6:

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."

Ch. 1 Ln 10:

"...Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished."

Happy Independence Day.

Excerpts from the Decider in Chief's recent speech in Tipp City, Ohio:

• "Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised; I'm running for office."'
• "There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."
• "There are some similarities, of course" between Iraq and Vietnam. "Death is terrible."
• "I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times."

Really gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he's got his finger on the trigger of the US nu-cu-ler arsenal.