Gilliard on the Possibility of Civil War in Iraq
Here’s an interesting artice by Steve Gilliard, writing for Daily Kos: How Iraq could devolve into civil war. This is the sort of stuff I love getting from the Web. It’s thoughtful, informed, and unmediated. Maybe it’s BS, but it makes sense to me. I’ll take it over the predigested viewpoint of mainstream media any day. Well, actually, I’ll take both, so I can compare the messages I receive from each of them.
Mark Twain pointed out that a man with one watch knows exactly what time it is, while a man with two is never sure. The subtext, of course, is that neither of them really knows, but one of them has a much better idea of the limits of his own knowledge.
The Web is our second watch.
