Islam, Iraq, and one more Historical Analogy

If you can resist falling asleep, Andrew Sullivan has a good essay comparing the developing situation in Iraq to the Thirty Years War. Since I am just getting ready to read Simplicius Simplicissimus, a novel written during that war, I found it interesting, despite the rather smug swipe at American ignorance of history at the outset.*

Any way you slice it, and any era in history you look to for insight, what is shaping up in Iraq is threatening and terrible. But then, see my earlier post.


*made rather more distasteful by its evident truth.