As the federal government shutdown ended and Republican hard-liners looked for ways to claim victory while promising to fight the same fight again, President Obama, who refused to enter into a tit for tat battle with the Tea Party over the Affordable Care Act until they agreed to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling, took his real victory and used it to start the process of moving the country forward, voicing his willingness to fight for progress on important issues like immigration and tax reform and, yes, even changes to the Affordable Care Act.
The President's push for immigration reform now is strategy as art. If Republicans vote against it, they lose the Hispanic vote. If Republicans vote for it, it will be seen as a victory for the President.
It is a perfect example of Sun Tzu's point in chapter 3 of his 475 BC treatise The Art of War.
monday quote: Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won; whereas, he who is destined to defeat, first fights and afterwards looks for victory. (Sun Tzu, Chinese military general and strategist, lived sometime between 500-320 BC)
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