A Powder Keg

Geov Parrish warns of the consequences of lighting "the Iraqi fuse" in his most recent column:

This is a war with the most clearly imperial aims of any major global conflict in a generation; the Bush Administration proposes to redraw Asia's maps to America's lasting economic, political, and military advantage. But once you start proposing to erase international boundaries, a funny thing happens: other people also start thinking about where to redraw them. And as developments suggest this week from Jordan to Kabul to whichever phone booth bin Laden is dropping rupees from, a number of people are already doing more than just thinking.

With bin Laden popping up again, the FBI issuing all sorts of scare-the-hell-out-of-you warnings of possible terrorist attacks, and the military "losing control" in Afghanistan, I think it's clear that somebody needs to put the brakes on things, and reevaluate the trajectory this nation has taken over the past year or so. I feel like we're this close to things getting entirely out of hand...