Darn! With him out of the way goes another useful tool the Bush administration can use to uphold the dubious claim that the insurgency is really jihadist in nature as opposed to what it really is, a civil war combined with a rebellion against an occupying power.
Cutting the head off of the snake would work great if it was a snake who was our enemy. Our enemy is not a snake. I could be dark and say that the enemy is us but that though that would sound poetic it is not the truth. It is a complicated foe. The US is besought on several fronts:
1: The current government is suffering from sectarian warfare of its own brought on by endemic coruption that has only multiplied since the Republicans have gained power.
2: Our high-wage economy is under assualt by corporate globalism and the lack of strong international unions.
3: No clear nuclear policy leading to the potential of terrible miscalculation.
4: Sciociopathic holy warriors (Muslim and Christian) who seek to destabilize the world to further their own religious ends.
5: Global environmental destructiton.
Those are the big dangers that face us, as I see it, and they are all pretty big. What makes them tough to fight is that they are so intertwined within our own nation and national identity. We are rushing to the point where we all will realize that we cannot have our cake and eat it to. I put the sectarianism as #1 for the US since in order to have a snow balls chance in hell of solving any of the other 4 problems #1 has to be tackled.
Somehow we will muddle through this situation but what the world will look like in a century is anyones guess. I have hope for humanity but little hope for the status quo or our current civilization. It looks to me to be headed toward collapse
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