(2003-05-13) Kottke On War Journalism

Just re-noticed this Jason Kottke piece re the War On Iraq. It's all much more complicated than this. All the arguments out there for and against are necessarily shallow. We're getting very small pieces of the whole story from TV reports, newspaper articles, weblog postings, and magazine pieces. No one has the time to read or write a complete analysis of the situation (which would be a social, political, religious, scientific and economic history of the world from 5000 B.C. up until 2 minutes ago...basically all human knowledge). I'm very interested in trying to use Systems Thinking techniques to summarize the more relations among the most significant factors (as an author perceives them).