Ishmael
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There Will be War – Prologue
Currently the worlds attention is focused on Iraq. What they will do, what the UN will do, what the US and our allies will do.
Everyone’s all in a dither over the possibility of war in Iraq, as if the rest of the world is at peace or there are no tensions.
The world is at war. The world has always been at war. Peace is a mythical ideal. It’s a desired state that is achieved in regional area’s for greater or lesser amounts of time. Conflict is the international norm, not the exception.
So I thought that I would start a small series of write-ups of conflicts. A series of essays on ongoing conflicts and potential conflicts.
I will present the facts and then make some postulations and interpretations of my own. Crystal ball gazing if you will. I’ll attempt to assess probabilities of initiation of conflict and the possible resolution of the conflict.
As some of what I’ll be doing is mere conjecture, I expect that there will be dissent and debate. That’s fine, and the purpose of the essays. I hope that I can enlighten, entertain, and provoke thought all at the same time.
Ishmael
Currently the worlds attention is focused on Iraq. What they will do, what the UN will do, what the US and our allies will do.
Everyone’s all in a dither over the possibility of war in Iraq, as if the rest of the world is at peace or there are no tensions.
The world is at war. The world has always been at war. Peace is a mythical ideal. It’s a desired state that is achieved in regional area’s for greater or lesser amounts of time. Conflict is the international norm, not the exception.
So I thought that I would start a small series of write-ups of conflicts. A series of essays on ongoing conflicts and potential conflicts.
I will present the facts and then make some postulations and interpretations of my own. Crystal ball gazing if you will. I’ll attempt to assess probabilities of initiation of conflict and the possible resolution of the conflict.
As some of what I’ll be doing is mere conjecture, I expect that there will be dissent and debate. That’s fine, and the purpose of the essays. I hope that I can enlighten, entertain, and provoke thought all at the same time.
Ishmael
