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John Minford, #SunTzu 2:19 "Treat prisoners of war kindly, and care for them. Use victory over the enemy to enhance your own strength."
Let's start at the end, "to enhance your own strength." Literally, the word "strength" means forces. Remember we're dealing in a world where soldiers are conscripted first, severely disciplined for any infraction of orders, killed for desertion, and often sacrificed foolishly.
So, when you treat your prisoners of war kindly, you're commencing the recruitment process. Far better to capture a prisoner, treat him kindly, and recruit him, than to kill him. An enemy soldier killed weakens your enemy. An enemy soldier recruited does so a second time.
John Minford, Sun Tzu 1-7: "Discipline is organization, chain of command, control of expenditure."
Say the word "discipline" to most of us in #MAGA, and I'm afraid you're very likely to get a dirty look right back. I keep going off about Saul Alinsky and his main book Rules for Radicals. Do you note the irony? If they're such radicals, why do they obey rules?
The truth is that you cannot take over a freedom-loving country, teach it to throw away its rights and embrace the values of suppression and big government control, unless you create a deeply disciplined cadre of leaders.
