9.14.2004

Broadband insurgent behavior

Instant communication, instant insurgency and the daily chaotic life of the iraqi people.

I belive that the rebellion in Iraq is escalating now beyond control. Several things have contributed to this point, namely mismanaging the postwar situation. What led up to our current point will surely be the subject of large books, but I have some thoughts on this point forward and will leave large books to their writers(for now).
instant communication, fed by the proliferation of cellular networks and the exponential growth of internet use by the public, gives insurgents untraceable ways to plan and prepare for attacks and is responsible in large part for the quickening pace of unrest. All things progress faster(yes, even rebellion)with easy access to information and problem solving capabilities. It allows for a huge exchange of information-true and false-within the public arena(unemployment of sixty-plus percent makes for a restless populace). Each news piece about the latest attack with pictures of dead children adds to each Iraqis' grief, fear, and anger-the last of which is directed against the US. Such anger, now that it has blown out of control, can not be thrown back in the vault. No matter our supposed high-minded intentions were, they can no longer be realized in the way that the Bush administration envisioned. Will the Bush administration come to grips with reality and face the problem with an open mind? Not likely.

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