主题:美国报刊：布什总统“现在读孙子已经太晚了”

９月１６日，美国《奥兰多前哨报》发表题为“现在读孙子已经太晚了”一文。文章开宗明义：“如果布什总统能抽空读一读孙子兵法，那么美伊自２００３年以来的军人与平民伤亡，本来是可以避免的。”

　　文章还具体列出了布什的决策有悖于孙子兵法的地方：

　　首先，布什在发动战争时国内缺乏共识，导致美军处于险境。

　　“因为战争对于国家来说非常重要，所以对于统帅来说，在发动战争之前获得民众的共识是一个必要条件和一种道德法则。”这是参照了《孙子·始计》篇的前半部分，即“兵者，国之大事，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也……一曰道，道者，令民于上同意，可与之死，可与之生，而不危也”。

　　其次，在伊拉克的美军不懂得“兵不厌诈”。

　　“战争是建立在欺骗的基础之上的…… 我们在战争中想通过地面进攻和空袭获得的成效，都因为我们过度的自信和傲慢而大打折扣，有时候太多的确定性反而有害。孙子说，这是一条通向死亡之路。”这一段是根据《孙子·始计》篇的“兵者，诡道也。故能而示之不能，用而示之不用，近而示之远，远而示之近……”作出的分析。

　　最后，文章认为，美国领导人打一场长期的战争，严重损耗了国力，违背了孙子兵法避免让战争旷日持久的原则。

　　“长期的军事行动直接导致国家的贫困。我们目前的财政赤字支持这个结论……根据最新的估计，美国在伊拉克战争中花费的军费最终要高达１万亿美元……”这里借用的是《孙子·作战》篇中的“夫兵久而国利者，未之有也。故不尽知用兵之害者，则不能尽知用兵之利也……故兵贵胜，不贵久”。

　　文章末尾期待下一任美国总统在入主白宫之前，能好好读读《孙子》，避免继续犯错误。

往事如烟，人生如梦。

原文：
It's too late now to read Sun Tzu
John Scolaro September 16, 2008

Had President George W. Bush taken the time to read Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a treatise written more than 2,000 years ago, perhaps the civilian and military casualties we have experienced on both sides, since our pre-emptive strike on Iraq in 2003, could have been avoided. Sun Tzu could have helped Bush and America avert what has become a much more accelerated and violent war against terrorism than any of us ever expected.

In fact, despite the so-called "surge" orchestrated by Gen. David Petraeus more than a year ago now, American military casualties in Iraq numbered 4,158 as of Sunday. Also, the total number of Iraqi deaths, military and civilian, since the U.S. invasion began now exceed 1,267,400, according to antiwar.com/ casualties. Such grievous losses remind me of Albert Einstein's view that killing under the cloak of war is nothing more than an act of murder. As Americans, we should be horrified by such brutality. Isn't there a more-effective way of resolving human conflict?

Here is what Bush would have learned had he taken the time to read Sun Tzu's treatise on war:

*Since war is of vital importance to the state, obtaining consensus among people before it is waged is a necessary obligation of any commander. According to Sun Tzu, gaining such a consensus is a moral law, which precedes action against a presumed enemy.

*Warfare is based on deception. If we, as Americans, suffer from any malady, it is a malady of the human spirit. Whatever we hope to gain by our ongoing ground and air assaults in Iraq will be pre-empted by our inflated self-confidence and arrogance. Sometimes too much certainty is counter-productive. As Sun Tzu said, it is a formula for certain death.

*Poverty of the state is a direct result of a lengthy military campaign of any kind. Our current budget deficit supports this conclusion.

Current cost estimates of the Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion. Even though estimates vary, everyone agrees that such a price is far higher than was initially estimated. It should not surprise us, then, especially if the United States takes its sweet time withdrawing American military troops from Iraq, that substantial losses of personal income, housing and other forms of security Americans have always valued and worked very hard to maintain will eventually disappear. Sun Tzu said that war has a way of stripping people bare.

I wish Bush had taken the time to read Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but it's really too late for him to do this now. I guess we'll just have to wait and see who becomes president of the United States later this year.

I just hope that whoever is elected president would have read Sun Tzu's insightful treatise before inauguration day next January. We cannot afford to elect anyone who does not understand the rudiments of basic economics.

Copyright © 2008, Orlando Sentinel

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/orl-myword16solaro08sep16,0,6519503.story

往事如烟，人生如梦。

他背后的 石油+军火的利益集团肯定读过！ 发财发死了！

这个家伙很懒，什么也没留下......

没关系，现在装孙子还不算太晚
话说回来，布什给美国背上的问题可不少

这个家伙很懒，什么也没留下......