e is an overview of this past week's events that argues it might be the emergence of civil war:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...304852,00.html
bushwar is a fiasco, it is opening onto other fiascos--the only way the right can continue to support this lunacy is to engage in term substitution, limiting interpretive possibilities, dismissing news sources outright, obstructing thinking whenever possible.
it is in the case of border control when thinking about iraq that you can see the delusional status of right ideology most clearly. want to see a little example--as usual, ustwo is available for examination.....
the iraq adventure is an incoherent colonial occupation without a plan, undertaken without adequate understanding of what they were getting into, that tried to shift authority to a puppet regime in allawi for damage control purposes, only to find that the legitimacy of that regime is obviously, to say the least, a problem.
now, if this article is correct, you have the opening rounds of outright civil war in a context where the americans are not a stablizing center but an active part, a faction--chaos on all quadrants---how far will thing shave to spiral down before the right even starts to think that maybe, just maybe, they, like the rest of us, have been chumped?
and not a bit of it has anything to do with the war on terrorism, and even ideologues of the ustwo caliber--low-wattage repeaters in the conservative radio ring--know it. there is not a single justification for this adventure that holds any water outside the sad, self-limiting little world of the right.
what is really unfortunate is that while the right splits off into irrational cheerleading and others cry foul, people who are none of us die on all sides. in great numbers.