Of course after major combat operations against Saddam’s army were completed in May, 2003, history continued. Unfortunately history never seems to stop at the ‘perfect moment’. Right after the German and Japanese surrender, history moved on. The Cold War — which was potentially even more dangerous than the Second World War — followed immediately on its heels. Greece, Eastern Europe, the insurgency in Korea, the Huks, the Malayan emergency, Indonesia, the post-war trouble in the Balkans, the Berlin Airlift were all underway in the same time difference that seperates us in 2008 from 2003. Some I am sure said, “but didn’t the Second World War just end? Why are we in this ‘Cold War’ again?” Only the dead have seen the end of history.