McCain needs Sun-Tzu's words tattooed on his forehead!

[tannybogus]

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And that means correcting the two serious mistakes we've made since that fateful day. They can be summed up in a line from the Chinese philosopher Sun-Tzu, "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
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The first mistake is about the enemy. The continued use of the phrase Islamic terrorism makes us infinitely less safe - especially when the emphasis is on the term "Islamic" - because it conjures up the fiction that we are at war with a religion of 1.3 billion people. Extremists love it when we do this. Not only does it affirm their highest sense of themselves (after all, they want to be known as "Islamic", not as "terrorists") it allows them to hide out among 1/5 of the human race.
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The second mistake is about us, and it is linked to the first. By getting the enemy wrong, we are in danger of getting ourselves wrong. If the identity of the enemy is defined by a religion, it is easy to define ourselves by a different religion - and see those two religions as inherently and inevitably at odds with each other.
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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2008/09/911_flight_to_new_york_city.html

Now I know McCain didn't pay attention to any classwork at Annapolis. Everybody should read "The Art of War." Sun-Tzu is still viable.

His principles were based on patience and waiting for the right time and way to strike. You could replace the Pentagon, if you had knowledgeable

people who understood him.:dunce: