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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Yes, I realize this is a lot to swallow, but as Sun Tzu once wrote:

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”


5 posted on 10/22/2016 4:43:31 AM PDT by bryan999
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To: bryan999
Fair enough.

Good ol' Sun Tzu, he knew just how far to bend the bamboo.

7 posted on 10/22/2016 4:46:56 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (choo choo)
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To: bryan999

The point is that he was speaking about a campaign of battles. Here, now, we are at the final battle for the soul of this country, not just another election or firefight where knowledge of tactics and driving forces can help with future battles. This is the LAST battle in my opinion - if we lose this one, there won’t be any that follow that will be of the peaceful kind.

In that regard, daily - no, hourly reprints of Trump tanking talk from the other side is helping THEM, helping them demoralize our troops. And if all this misplaced ‘helping’ succeeds then the so-called knowledge we might gain from the enemy might just as well be written on our tombstones.


8 posted on 10/22/2016 4:51:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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