"Unless you've been in a cave in Afghanistan, you are probably aware that The Sopranos finally returns to HBO this Sunday night: "

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"Well, the United States is in danger of becoming the RIAA of global politics. Our entire mentality and defense network is contingent upon the threat posed by oppositional nation states. We simply aren't set up to deal with this rootless, stateless, Ian Fleming supervillian sort of enemy. And so, just like the RIAA, we are trying to pretend that the world has not changed, and that our previous ways of dealing with things are still perfectly effective. And so here we are, about to go to war with a nation state, for no apparent reason except that that's what we know how to do. And it will make us all feel better, reimpose some sense of order onto the chaos into which we have been thrust this past year. Make us feel like we're in control. "

I had an interesting conversation with some friends of mine while I was in NYC this past week.  One of the topics we touched on was how we (the US) are fighting the wrong war.  We're trying to march tanks into Iraq, when there's very little evidence (at least in my eyes) that:

• Saddam is behind any of the terrorist attacks,
• Or that sending tanks into Iraq would have any effect on stopping terrorist attacks

I've touched on 4th Generation War vs 3rd Generation War here before but I think the paragraph I've quoted above sums up the problems of the approach George is taking in the "War on Terrorism".

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