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Apparently I'm not the only one baffled by this administration's lack of knowledge about the American civil war. Larry Johnson:

A brief update to my earlier piece about the denial that a civil war is underway in Iraq. I almost drove off the road when I heard our National Director of Intelligence, John Negroponte, offer his definition in testimony before Congress on Tuesday. According to Mr. Negroponte a civil war is, "a complete loss of central government security control, the disintegration or deterioration of the security forces of the country." Did he fall asleep during high school history? Apparently he never studied our own civil war. Based on his definition we never had a civil war and Abraham Lincoln and his generals were deluded. We even had two Presidential elections during that so-called war in the 1860s and Congress met regularly. Call me crazy, but John Negroponte needs to do better than this.

That is the administration's definition of a civil war? "A complete loss of central government security control?" You've got to be kidding me. That makes NO SENSE. By that definition, a civil war only becomes possible when the government has lost control of the entire nation. Or to put it more plainly, a civil war only becomes possible after the central government has ALREADY LOST THE WAR!

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