"The Long War"---Donald Rumsfield vs. Sun Tzu (500BC)

Click on the post for an article on the speech by Donald Rumsfield titled "The Long War," given at the National Press Club. In the speech, Mr. Rumsfield theorizes that the current war on terror will be similar to The Cold War---in other words, it will be a very long one.

The article triggered my memory to the book, "The Art of War," by Sun Tzu, written in 500BC. I have read the sections on the audio post above. Yes---- my dear readers might smile thinking of The Observer armed in the struggle of ideas with only a mere writing pen and the small treatise "The Art of War." written so long ago. Whatever.

Click on the audio post to listen to the section:

Now you make the call. Did we learn anything from the Vietnam War or from Sun Tzu? Is the theory of Mr. Rumsfield fatally flawed?

You make the call.