Deep Shit Situation

The week after the third annnivsery of the huge mobilization against the start of the current Iraq War (15 February 2003) has left the world in a deep-shit situation:

• Suicide Bombing of Saudi Oil Complex Foiled leaves the oil markets nervous. Al-Qaeda may succeed next time. Hello $2-$3 a litre. (My wild guess!)
• Shiite protests Roil Iraq after the bombing by guerriillas of the domed Askariyah shrine in Samarra. Hello civil war! Get the troops out of there! Now!
• State of emergency in Phillipines. Another front-line state in the War on Terror in trouble.
• The Cartoon protests continue! Hello clash of civilizations!
• The Iranian Nuclear standoff continues
• So does the North Korean Nuclear standoff.
• The controversy over the take-over of some US ports by a Dubai company has the US press in hysteria over the smuggling of nuclear weapons into the USA. Whereas the truth is that there was little security before. The NBC demonstrated that the smuggling of radioactive material was possible. Only 7% of cargo is inspected. And the vaunted radioactive detection failed!
• The USA moved one step closer to a totalarian state with George W. Bush saying is above the law while the USA is at war!
• The housing market teeters along. The bubble may be slowly deflating.

Historians (if a future exists) may wonder how all of this came to pass. One clue may be in the authoritarian cult discussed by Glenn Greenwald when he asks Do Bush followers have a political ideology? Another clue could be that The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile.