"Never interfere with the enemy when he is destroying himself..."

That old saying comes to mind when we watch all the spinmeisters on the Sunday talk shows. Should we just sit back and enjoy the show as they self-destruct? Should we just hit and run with guerrilla tactics? Or understanding the nature of the enemy, do we have to keep constant pressure on them and expose them at every opportunity? It would be nice to sit back and enjoy the show but I'm not sure we have the luxury? How long before they would take charge of the agenda again? (I think they are on the defensive at this time)

Full court press. Don't give them one moment's rest.

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We absolutely cannot sit back and hope bush hangs himself. Bush has made countless blunders so far and gotten away with it because the media is on his side. We need to attack.

Of sitting back and enjoying the show. Having said that, this is the time of preparation, of designing and defining tactics to be used later. Cards must be kept close to the vest. Misdirection should be used. Sun Tzu and Musashi must be re-read and pondered at length.

I'm looking for my copy of Sun Tzu at this moment... :)

and eat the wounded.

Pound them again and again. What would they do if the roles were reversed? Pound pound pound.

If they think this is bad, wait 'til we start our attacks! :) We shouldn't take any pity on these bastards and bastardettes...

Corruption is inherently self-defeating. The major reason "loyalty" (to people, not principle) is elevated to the highest pseudo-virtue under autocratic regimes is due to the unavoidable failure of discrimination in a feeding frenzy. The animosity between Nazis and Stalinists wasn't really due to conflicting ideologies. Totalitarianism is not an ideology; it's a perversion of ideology. Fascist Germans detested the fascist Japanese, and vice versa. Fascist Nazis sneered at fascist Italians, and vice versa. Nationalism is like that.

Every autocratic regime overthrown by hegemonistic Amerika has been so overthrown, not because it was autocratic but because it quite naturally served itself rather than another autocratic regime -- in particular the one serving to create it. Corporatist autocrats continue to replicate such regimes under the delusion of compliance, but virtually assure that such regimes will ultimately be adversaries. Autocracies are like that.

Saddam and his perverted Baathists were diligent in stomping out any possible adversaries, even long before they'd become adversaries. That's why there's no alternative 'leadership' in Iraq. Where there's no dissent permitted, there's no possibility of improvement or growth. It's a recipe for deterioration and rot.

Regimes based on greed for power and wealth are composed of people who, when they find the pickings slimmer "out there," turn on one another. It's inevitable. Saddam knew this and experienced it. Even his relatives weren't 'safe'.

The most effective anti-autocratic strategy isn't to become a competing autocracy (and be likewise infected); it's to re-embrace democratic values (an immunity against infection) and enable the internal self-loathing inherent in autocratic regimes. Take advantage of the inherent nature of an autocracy to feed upon itself. (This, in a nutshell, is why I'm adamantly opposed to the "only partly pregnant" contamination of which the DLC is emblematic.)

People cannot be deluded forever. They either learn or die. Eventually the Saturday night drunkenness wears off, the Sunday morning sun shines through the window, and the profligate sybarite discovers that (s)he's no longer in bed with a sexy beauty but is in bed with Beelzebub.

There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.