Eighth Note to “Kidnapped”

And as either Plato or Aristotle said, war and politics cannot be learned or taught. War and politics have to be experienced and lived in order to be known and understood. Thus, the expectation out of either a general or a spy to be quiet and subtle. As Sun Tzu said, be subtle. But we tried to teach it and instruct some of the eager and diligent ones nonetheless. It was an Oxford or Cambridge type of education for the whole world, given out free of charge as we said before.