I am getting increasingly depressed about the imminence of war. have no doubt, it will happen. George and Tony have marched quarter of a million men to the top of the hill, and they sure as hell aren't going to march them back down again without having trodden on a dictator or two. The real piss-off is that there is absolutely NOTHING, short of assassination, that anyone can do. This war is so much more dangerous than anyone suspects: It could well mean the end of NATO, the EU and more importantly, the UN. That means back we go, back to the time of an unregulated, more brutal world: back to the world of imperial powers. Or rather, power. How long will it be before America declares imperium?