Episode 110: 9/11 Twenty-Two Years on we should have listened to Sun Tsu

Opening & closing music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church (37221)
We got hurt & the nation demanded retribution.

We lost the first battle of WW IV and we don’t know it! We don’t even know when it happened. Was it the Marine barracks in Lebanon or the USS Cole? 911 was a wake-up call.

What are we trained to do in an emergency? Dial nine - one - one of course. It’s the one thing you may do from an otherwise locked iPhone.

Our problem is our focus we employed the same strategy as in Viet Nam. We fought an amorphous enemy on his terms. The famous “seek & destroy” found nothing & destroyed the wrong stuff.

We could have played The “Great Satan” card & made Kabul vanish in a cloud of nuclear dust. Sun Tsu would have counseled patience.

“Know your enemy & in 1000 battles, you will not know defeat.”

Revenge is a dish best served cold.