What Would Sun Tzu Say? On Iraq

I guess this is a good day for juxtapositions...also from Sun Tzu on Waging War:

Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Could it be said any clearer? And this from a man dead some 2000 years?