From: Adam 

Geo wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:4578a3f0{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Though Israel is widely assumed to have a nuclear weapons arsenal, it
>> has stuck to its policy of ambiguity on the subject, insisting against
>> all the evidence that it will not be the first to introduce nuclear
>> weapons into the Middle East.
>
>> A retired Israeli general said Thursday
>> Israel is no longer trying to convince anyone that it has no nuclear
>> arsenal."
>
> Sounds ambiguous to me. Aren't Jews known for being frugal, do you really
> thing they would spend the money a nuclear arsenal would require?
>

Nah they'd spend your money.

> Geo. (If you assume I can kick your ass, I've already won. Or in the
> immortal words of bruce lee, "the art of fighting witout fighting")
>
>

Bruce Lee? Art of War by Sun Tzu dear boy

BTW he's still right e.g.:

" 2. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory
     is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and
     their ardor will be damped.  If you lay siege to a town,
     you will exhaust your strength.

  3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources
     of the State will not be equal to the strain.

  4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped,
     your strength exhausted and your treasure spent,
     other chieftains will spring up to take advantage
     of your extremity.  Then no man, however wise,
     will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

  5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war,
     cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

  6. There is no instance of a country having benefited
     from prolonged warfare.

  7. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted
     with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand
     the profitable way of carrying it on."


Humm.......all pertinent esp 7 wrt the draft dodging Bush & Cheney.


But the dictum Bruce Lee was quoting is:

" 2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles
     is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists
     in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Adam

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