The Current situation in Iraq demostrates how the Bush administration has not miscalculated political events there.
But that they have totally missed the point of most Arab States cultures at this present day period.
Iraq was the most secular state in the Arab world before the U.S. takeover.
Now we are seeing the effects of Moslem Religion that had been tried to set aside by the previous government and the lack of an existance of a civil society in Iraq.
Geting Iraq to a r

The Iraq Civil war has begun. It actually started two weeks after the declaration of cessation of hostilities.
THe Bush administration has demonstrated a kind of hap hazard approach or total lack of preparedness for the whole civil and military situation in Iraq.
This is going to rapidly degenerate into some kind of endless nightmare unless the Bush administration gets lucky.

30 august 2003
Kim Jong Ill has several options now.
He can allow his atomic scientists to build / or test their first atomic bomb.
If he allows a test to be conducted, The reaction of the five powers that surround his country could be very unfavorable.
possibily China might invade with the tacit permission of Japan and Russia, South Korea, the U.S..
He can hold off from that course of action and try his bluste

6 june 2003
This is my first Journal entry on Slashdot.
This very new to me.
1. i have never kept a journal
2, i have never entered a journal entry on the internet.
3. As a part- time historian, i realize the importance of keeping records.
4. since as Slashdot pre-suposes correctly, i am invisible to most of the world, i wonder wheather to be glad or sad?
5. i am wondring what the power and/or priviledges and/or limitations and bad things to come with my presence on thi