Sun Tzu Approves Of Harper's Decision To Proroguing Parliament
Sun Tzu, author of Art of War, (the world reknowned book often referred to as the bible on military strategy) would have been in favour of the Prime Minister proroguing parliament. Here is a bullet version of how I came to this conclusion.
1) The Conservative objective is to move conservative legislation through parliament (both the House and the Senate)
2) The Liberals are decimated and fractured in the House so their strategy has been to parry the conservative legislation in the Senate where they have had the majority.
3) Sun Tzu wrote “What is of supreme importance in war is to upset the enemy’s strategic plans.” Hence, the Conservatives need to upset the parrying in the Senate.
4) The only way to do this is to gain control of the Senate (and thus the Senate committees)
5) Proroguing at this time buys the Conservatives enough time to do this.
Chessmaster Harper scores another point.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:17 am
i say good again
January 6th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Once he controls Senate Committees, Harper will have almost all the advantages over the Libs. About all they’ve got left is a sympathetic media to reinforce Lib talking points; some third-party advocates like the eco-kooks; and “whistle-blowing” beauracrats looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
So Harper will be right to keep pressing his advantages. With the main danger being that he will overdo it, and motivate the anti-Harper universe to coalesce and push back in a semi-unified way (see the Coalition, motions in the House, Opps majorities on House Committees).
The war analogy to politics is a good one.
The one big difference, especially in this political environment, is that Harper can’t go on an all out attack. He has to slowly and systematically dismantle the Libs, also relying on their internal squabbles to speed up the process.
February 12th, 2010 at 2:05 am
Well it seems at least, that Dick Wartman aka Richard Warman has been silent eh?