Pentagon and White House Dreaming (A summary of Monday's Blog with Hamlet added) or Between Dreams and Lime-Twiggs Lies the Rub

". . . dreams indeed are ambition; for the very substance of the ambition is merely the shadow of a dream". Hamlet, Act I, sc. ii

"Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twiggs; the more he struggles, the more belimed." Hobbes, Leviathan.

"Thus, the violence in Iraq cannot be categorized as the result of a single organized or unified opposition or insurgency; the security situation is currently at its most complex state since the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Similarly, Iraqi or Coalition security strategies must be tailored for the different objectives, methods, and support structures of each particular threat." "Measuring Secuity and Stability in Iraq" August 2006 / http://www.defenselink.mil/

"The Terrorists Serve A Clear And Focused Ideology. The ideology known as Islamic radicalism, militant Jihadism, or Islamo-fascism - different from the religion of Islam - exploits Islam to serve a violent political vision that calls for the murder of all those who do not share it. The followers of Islamic radicalism are bound together by their shared ideology, not by any centralized command structure. Although they fight on scattered battlefields, these terrorists share a similar ideology and vision for the world openly stated in videos, audiotapes, letters, declarations, and websites. ""Fact Sheet: President Bush Remarks on the War on Terror" / http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-2.html