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To: Enigma who wrote (94145)	3/20/2003 7:57:49 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116796

My feelings precisely. Those people who do not have nuclear weapons should pay better attention to how they behave. There are certain rules for waging war. They were all written by von Clausewitz, who should have known them well, as he used to lose to Napoleon all the time and there is no teacher like failure. Rule 1. Invade early and often. There is no use invading an enemy after he has had time to build strength and could repel you. Rule 2. Never assume any potential enemy is telling the truth. He could be, but that is just a ruse to keep you off balance. In war and international relations, the truth is just another type of lie used in emergency situations. When using the truth, it is important to make the enemy think he is being deceived. This make it difficult to use the truth when it is important it be believed. But it is just as useful to have the enemy not trust you as a matter of course, as if he should ever discover the truth, you can let on you wanted him to know that. Stick to the basic formula. The truth is what you conceal, and lies are what you tell, otherwise, why have any sort of secrets? Rule 3. Always fight battles you are sure you can win. If you have to fight battles that are defensive, then get it over with quick so that the terms are generous and you can afford to be smart next time. Rule 4. Never fight when you can make or get far reaching economic concessions, especially if you are sure you could lose. Economic concessions are just getting rid of surplus anyway. If you structure the concessions right, they are dumping into markets that will eventually cause economic hardships for the enemy's industry and cause his economic collapse. Rule 5. The loser always wins a war. He spends less, has to rebuild all his industry and gets rid of all the know-it-alls and cannon fodder who think they can win every war. This allows him much better efficiency after the war, and the bleeding-heart regime-change syndrome allows the subsequent governments to trade advantageously due to new trade conduits and foreign investment. If one examined Germany and Japan in comparison to Russia and the US after World War II, it would be hard to see how they did anything but benefit by losing the war, and soundly at that. The formula seems to be: get nuked, taken over completelty, rebuilt utterly, change your complete philosophy and win the subsequent peace industrially and economically. Losing wins. You can't beat losing to the Americans. Within two generations you will have a better economy than they do, all courtesy of US dollars and reconstructionism. EC<:-}