Newt Gingrich refers to Sun Tzu in speech

[sonshi]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (and fellow Georgian) delivered the following remarks to a Jewish National Fund meeting Nov. 15 at the Selig Center:

"We need first of all to recognize this is a real war. Our enemies are peaceful when they're weak, are ruthless when they're strong, demand mercy when they're losing, show no mercy when they're winning. They understand exactly what this is, and anybody who reads Sun Tzu will understand exactly what we're living through. This is a total war. One side is going to win. One side is going to lose. You'll be able to tell who won and who lost by who's still standing. Most of Islam is not in this war, but most of Islam isn't going to stop this war. They're just going to sit to one side and tell you how sorry they are that this happened. We had better design grand strategies that are radically bigger and radically tougher and radically more honest than anything currently going on, and that includes winning the argument in Europe, and it includes winning the argument in the rest of the world. And it includes being very clear, and I'll just give you one simple example because we're now muscle-bound by our own inability to talk honestly."

Read the entire speech: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=1385641

[flo r. kle]

Originally posted by sonshi
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (and fellow Georgian) delivered the following remarks to a Jewish National Fund meeting Nov. 15 at the Selig Center:

"We need first of all to recognize this is a real war. Our enemies are peaceful when they're weak, are ruthless when they're strong, demand mercy when they're losing, show no mercy when they're winning. They understand exactly what this is, and anybody who reads Sun Tzu will understand exactly what we're living through. This is a total war. One side is going to win. One side is going to lose. You'll be able to tell who won and who lost by who's still standing. Most of Islam is not in this war, but most of Islam isn't going to stop this war. They're just going to sit to one side and tell you how sorry they are that this happened. We had better design grand strategies that are radically bigger and radically tougher and radically more honest than anything currently going on, and that includes winning the argument in Europe, and it includes winning the argument in the rest of the world. And it includes being very clear, and I'll just give you one simple example because we're now muscle-bound by our own inability to talk honestly."

Read the entire speech: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=1385641

Gingrich should read Sun Tzu more carefully and avoid attempting to destroy his enemies. The art of deft compromise, alliances and forethought instead of bludgeoning people into submission would be better.

The way to defeat Islam is to capture it, intact, not to defeat it.