Yeah except of course that Rummy and his aides don't buy into this bit of crap...After all good old Clausewitz is the one who told us that peaced is the absence of conflict ( which we know to be false)...This is just so much hot air kind of like business guys trying to explain mergers and take overs and success and loss by exploring Japanese and CHinese philosophers and warriors...
"Let the Sword be sharp and bloody."
Von Clausawitz would have endorsed nuking Baghdad, setting an example, and seeking to disarm all hostile non-nuclear regimes via nuclear threat. Sun Tzu, however, would have preferred the route of Iraqi Freedom. Both scholars of war, which is both a science and an art, make valid points. It's a question of what you think about an entire culture as a whole. My view is: we've been getting along with muslims here in the US for ages, and the Islamo-facist culture rules through the fear of fatwa, making it more a fanatical sect of Muhammadism, a cult more than a religion. We are, IMHO, shaming the entire muslim faith with our Christian love in Iraq. In the end, we will fail to completely fulfill our faith's true purpose, which is why Revelation predicted that Baghdad [possibly renamed Babylon] will become Sin City of the world. FReegards....