BK>>>  Don't forget, nationbuilding is not good. Nationbuilding is bad.
 BK>>> Nationbuilding is the work of Satan. We know that because right
 BK>>> wingers tell us so.

 KW> Others agree, but for differing reasons:

 I had never read Sun Tzu before. If this is the best he does, I
 am glad I didn't waste my time.

 KW> III. Attack by Stratagem

 KW> 1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best
 KW> thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and
 KW> intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too,
 KW> it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy
 KW> it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire
 KW> than to destroy them.

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 KW> 7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of
 KW> the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph
 KW> will be complete. This is the method of attacking by
 KW> stratagem.

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