Napoleon Bonaparte on war blunders

Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Sun Tzu on avoiding conflicts

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

~ Sun Tzu

 

James Madison on external enemies

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

~ James Madison

Marc Faber on governments finding scapegoats for its failures

Every failed state has always accused somebody else for its own shortcomings.  The Bolsheviks blamed foreign interference and foreign spies; Stalin blamed Hitler; Hitler blamed the Communists and Jews; Trump blamed the Chinese; and the Democrats blamed Trump for everything that went wrong, etc.

~ Marc Faber, The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, February 1, 2021

David Stockman on the Trump legacy

The everlasting irony of Donald J. Trump’s presidency is this: He had all the right enemies, but virtually without exception made all the wrong decisions during his hapless four-year sojourn in the Oval Office. 

The list of his enemies is enough to make any right-thinking supporter of peace, prosperity and liberty proud.  That starts with the TV networks and print organs of the mainstream stenographers club, who peddle the state’s propaganda and call it news.  This most especially includes the masters of mendacity at CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. 

It also includes the bipartisan national security mafia, the climate change howlers, the race card hondlers, the Russophobes, the Neocon War Brigades, the NATO/IMF/UN acolytes, the Washington nomenclatura, the careerist racketeers of Capitol Hill, the beltway shills of the Lincoln Project, the Silicon Valley thought police and the celebrity scolds of entertainment and media, among others. 

With so many worthy enemies it is amazing that he managed to do so little good and so very much wrong.

~ David Stockman, "Orange Man Gone," LewRockwell.com, January 23, 2021