Health care: Strike with chaos

The health-care overhaul has peaked the concerns of many. The fiscal conservatives see it as an abuse of federal spending. The social conservatives see it as taxpayer funding of abortion. Others simply see it as unreasonable. Why are we doing this when we have the best, albeit not perfect, health-care system in the world? Why are we signing up for long lines, supply shortages and doctors who will inevitably leave their profession because they cannot afford the significant drop in pay?

Yet, the most under-observed concern is what I refer to as the "chaos tactic." It is inconceivable to me that the Obama administration is so isolated from reality that they do not realize that this and many of their other policies will bankrupt our country. So why are they supporting this? Why are they so set on shoving this down the throats of citizens who overwhelmingly oppose the bill? One word: Chaos.

Sun-Tzu (c. 551-496 B.C.) has been heralded by history as a master of war strategy, as seen in his small but highly influential book, "The Art of War." One of his key maxims is "Strike with chaos." "Why chaos?" you may ask. "Why not strike with your best men or your strongest weapon?" The answer is that chaos sets the enemy into a fear-filled frenzy, and in this state they are unable to make reasonable judgments or orderly counter-offensive plans. When one strikes with chaos, the enemy is disarmed and most of the time raises their hands out of desperation, crying, "Do what you will!"

This is the tactic that has been repeatedly used throughout the Obama administration. We have seen that the entire campaign was run on "hope" as opposed to the dismally painted and "hopeless" Bush administration. As a candidate, Barack Obama continually used this emotional tactic to gain supporters. The financial "chaos" of bank and industry bailouts furthered his cause for being the savior of chaos.

After he rose to power as president, we saw a continuation of this chaos tactic as he spent us out of house and home on the "stimu-what" bill. We needed to stimulate a broken economy, which has been characterized by the media as the next Great Depression. Yet no one seems to mention the great financial Panic of 1857 in which 1,400 banks closed within one month. Nor do they mention the Panics of 1837, 1873, 1893 or 1907. The 1973 Oil Crisis and the 1979 Energy Crisis also go mysteriously undetected in order to make these times appear even more unprecedented and terrible.

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Next, was the swine flu H1N1 epidemic in which the administration painted a doomsday pandemic. Yet, by this time, some in our nation had caught on to the chaos tactic pervading the delivery of news to the public.

Just as the crisis of the swine flu waned, we had a new chaotic mammoth on the horizon: health care. While Washington tried to warn the country of the great need to spend every last penny of their grandchildren's inheritance, most Americans have opposed it.

Now, with the threat of this terrible bill looming in our presence, what do we make of it? Why would anyone in their right mind continue to spend, spend, spend, when we obviously need to stop, stop, stop? The only answer lies in the chaos tactic. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid obviously know the chaotic implications of this bill. If we continue to spend, at some point our lenders (China and others) will refuse to finance our debts for us. At that point, we will see the same kind of hyper-hyper-inflation that plagued the Weimar Republic following World War I. You must remember the pictures from your history books of German children who tied bundles of marks together to burn for fuel. The value of the mark had dropped so dramatically that it was cheaper to burn stacks of marks than it was to buy coal or wood.

Yet, what happened after the fall of the Weimar Republic? Who saved Germany from despair? Whose great speeches and strategic organization pulled Germany from the ashes? Adolf Hitler.

Hitler, like many despotic leaders, saw opportunity in the chaos. The chaos of post-World War I Germany naturally craved a leader, and Hitler filled the void.

Yet Hitler was not the only leader who capitalized upon chaos. In the late 18th century, France had been torn by the French Revolution of 1789 and the subsequent Reign of Terror (1793-1794). Within a decade, the country had seen rapid leadership changes from a ruling monarchy to a dictatorship by political radicals. The void left by the chaos craved a leader who could save the country. Enter Napoleon. By 1799, Napoleon had overthrown the ruling body, the Directory, through a coup d'état, and became the de facto military leader of France. By 1804, he had crowned himself emperor.

Lenin's rise to power also capitalized upon chaos. In February of 1917, a group of anti-monarchists overthrew the czarist government. This left the country with a disorganized ruling body called the Provisional Government. Lenin and his small group of followers, the Bolsheviks, used this chaotic situation to their advantage and overthrew the Provisional Government in November of 1917.

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid can see opportunity in chaos, just like Hitler, Napoleon and Lenin did. Yet our chaos has not become chaotic enough for the people to bend their wills to this leader. So chaos must be produced by their overspending. This administration will spend until the financial status becomes so chaotic that the people raise their hands and cry, "Do what you will! Save us, Messiah!"

Sun-Tzu's tactic of chaos still speaks from his grave. If you can put a people into enough panic and enough frenzy, they will give you the reins. This is what our leadership is banking on right now. Yet, we must remember that they are counting on us to cave, to retreat, and not to call upon Congress to oppose this bill.

However, striking with chaos doesn't work if the people refuse to become afraid. This is echoed in the words of Edmund Burke, who stated, "Evil is powerless, if the good are unafraid."

May we be unafraid as we oppose the health-care bill and stand against the chaos tactic of the governmental elites.

Caroline Lewis is a freelance writer living in Dallas, Texas.  She is the founder of the Caroline Chronicle, an online journal of political and spiritual thought.