Art of War - Moral Law
At the very beginning of The Art of War, Sun Tsu writes:
The MORAL LAW causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
This is something that the US lacks at present. Even without ther 2000 election mess in Florida, a substantial fraction of the American people would have been unwilling to follow George W Bush to war. It’s been going on for decades, the division of America and the dissolution of our common goals and ideals.
I’m also reading Churchill’s history of the second world war, and I’m struck by how similarly divided Britain was in the pacifist period of the 20s and 30s was.
Good news? Maybe. The allies won the war, after all. But divided Britain came together under a wise respected statesman, and had the help of a wealthy, productive and nearly invulnerable ally in the US. Today we seem short of both.