“A good general wants the enemy to believe the opposite of what is actually the case”

Sun Tzu was right — warfare is deception. A good general wants the enemy to believe the opposite of what is actually the case, in as many instances as possible. He wants him to believe he is far away when he is close, and to believe he is close when he is far away. He wants him to believe he is strong when he is weak, and weak when he is strong.
Douglas Wilson

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  1. And Doug Wilson wants you to believe he is a super-duper Evangelist.

    As an aside, History ran a commercial for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and in Canada at least they are holding a contest (I think it was a contest — you know what commercials are like). The deal includes a trip to Jolly Old England and bottles of Laphroaig (probably spelt wrong) which if my memory serves this morning, is Dougie’s fave whiskey. Wonder if he will enter?

  2. The same “Pastor” who claims in his message, posted on this site, from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, to have no designs on Moscow vis-a-vis a true controlling of my hometown, but rather a warm, fuzzy, “we love all of Moscow” “spiritual” influence on the town’s residents, writes … “warfare is deception. A good general wants the enemy to believe the opposite of what is actually the case, in as many instances as possible.” Huh….

    1. @CNW: Note the title of the blog post: “Deception and the Culture War.” In it he approves the use of deception in culture war. Of course, he reckons himself a culture warrior.

  3. I believe that over the years, Wilson’s own bumbling has cost him the element of surprise. He has been reduced to a version of taqiyya.

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