i wish more of you could read swedish. yesterday in the swedish daily, dagens nyheter, a very well respected historian and member of the swedish academy by the name of peter englund wrote an extremely interesting piece called the war game in washington - and the reality.

in the piece professor englund goes through the background that led up to the irak war, which he refers to as 'a strategic mistake by magnitude not seen since the vietnam war'. he paints a picture of a president almost clinically free from anylitical skills/will surrounded by neoconservative civilians with hybris related to their own ideas and the power of war to solve international issues. it is indeed a very frightning picture.

i humbly wonder how many americans that truly understands what what direction that bush & co has taken this nation and the trajectory of that direction.