winter.. early.. dark, icy, and freezing butt cold

Spending most of november trying to write the novel, not getting much done, and now it is time to hit the road again for the holiday season of shows. Where has that non-dimensional dimension of time gone???

Sparking up the thought machine today was a bit of midnight pondering. If one were to assume that the Iraqi insurgents were simply terrorists out to get the US out of Iraq, wouldn't it make sense, in all sorts of ways, if they simply went dark. Cutting off all such actions, letting the winds whisper some stillness in the freezing winter, the US would find itself without resistance and go home. Logic and strategic thinking would dictate that path---well only if the insurgents really were what our government says they are. But they are not.

No, what we have in Iraq is a reformed government full of Iranian mullahs, militia forces, ayatollah bureaucrats, revolutionary guards---all of whom are Shia's bent on destroying the presence of Sunni's throughout the region. The US has no business of course turning Iraq over to Iran, if we again were to believe the US in its critique of Iranian goals for the dominion over the region's resources. But this is not the case. Rather our PNAC Straussian policy creators have found a way to keep US forces on the ground ostensibly to protect the oil, but more so to balance w/ Israel the anti-china, anti-russian idealism of the Shias. If we help Iran now, they will help us against China later, or so the straw goes. Unfortunately, the Shias and Sunnis have been at each others throats for 1500 years and will continue to be so.

Our war mongers chose a path, stepped into the camel dung, and are now incapable of believing that they are losing on every front. We can't win a war we never intended to fight. We can't claim victory when the civil war will go on for another millenia. We can't save Israel from Iranian nuclear development, because we have given them all of Iraq's oil already. We can't keep China and Russia from beginning to dominate the region's resources, because we have no more money. We are screwed..