Re: war

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:04:34 -0500 (EST)

Nah I don't think we have any particularly extended interests in the
area, but it's interesting that the day after I said, "that means we
don't take the Serb's first offer," the Serbs made an offer and we turned
it down :)

In my opinion, it has to do with ensuring that the hostilities don't
start up again the minute we've pulled out.  We would be better off
bargaining with a much more defeated enemy from a position of strength
(and making concessions they and everyone else can live with, so it's not
a humiliating defeat) than pulling out too soon and allowing the "enemy"
to swagger back in, as if they were making a tactical retreat rather than
a genuine surrender.

Deception is the single most valuable weapon to wage in warfare.  Since
we're talking about Eastern lit, anyone read The Art of War?

Jim  

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:04:06 -0600 John Touzios
<JTouzios@mwumail.midwestern.edu> writes:
>Jim,
>  Thank you for the comforting post.  However, according to the 
>headlines the 
>u.s. is not accepting melosovic's (sp?) offer to retreat.  do we have 
>more at 
>stake here than the lives we're supposed to be protecting?
>  john
>
>"Man the most complex, intricate and delicately constructed 
>machine of all creation, is the one with which the osteopath 
>must become familiar."  A.T. Still
>
>"Everyone seems to know how useful it is to be useful.
> No one seems to know how useful it is to be useless."
>                           Chuang Tzu
>
>

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