Opinion: Smart but stinky strategies in California’s Senate race
![An ancient proverb is at play in the fight over a U.S. Senate seat held for 30 years by the late Dianne Feinstein. The proverb: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Think Roosevelt and Churchill helping dictator Stalin repel Hitler in World War II. Or the Reagan administration backing Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein in his war against anti-American Iran in the 1980s. True, a Senate race isn’t the same as a shooting war. Not exactly. But as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it in the early 1800s: “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics […] An ancient proverb is at play in the fight over a U.S. Senate seat held for 30 years by the late Dianne Feinstein. The proverb: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Think Roosevelt and Churchill helping dictator Stalin repel Hitler in World War II. Or the Reagan administration backing Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein in his war against anti-American Iran in the 1980s. True, a Senate race isn’t the same as a shooting war. Not exactly. But as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it in the early 1800s: “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics […]](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/OCR-L-GARVEYPOLL-0221-2.jpg?w=620)
An ancient proverb is at play in the fight over a U.S. Senate seat held for 30 years by the late Dianne Feinstein. The proverb: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Think Roosevelt and Churchill helping dictator Stalin repel Hitler in World War II. Or the Reagan administration backing Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein in his war against anti-American...