[mburbank]

Shach, the reaction of your Poli sci class is precisely what I see as te problem.

No matter where you stand on the war in Iraq, if you don't recognize the much larger can of worms it opens then you've got your head in the sand. My fear is that the Bush administration is split between those with their heads willfully in the sand and those who are actively eager for an East West conflict that they see as in some way restoring the glory days of the cold war, ie. a world they understood their part in. Either of these attitudes serves the country or the world well.

If the rise of Al Quaeda was the blowback from Gulf War I...