I have this idea I’ve been kicking around for a while. I’ve been thinking about putting together a history of the "Terror War" online. The idea was sparked by my current fascination with Greek history and the Peloponnesian War. I've been particularly inspired Victor Davis Hanson’s “A War Like No Other.” It is a truly excellent book filled with insight and dense with content.

The thing that has interested me the most about this period of Greek history was Thucydides contemporary history of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides decided early on that this war would be a war for the ages and began collecting sources and eyewitness accounts. The result is one of the most vivid and enduring accounts of war and politics. I think it would be interesting to start collecting sources and accounts of the “Terror War” and try to put them into some kind of context.

I thought about starting with the date of 9-11-01 but eventually decided against it. The real start date of the long war is 3-19-03 and begins with the coalition invasion of Iraq. The idea is to collect sources from that date and events that happened on the date and catalog all the important events. From there I hope to add one-day forward and one day backward from 3-19-03.

I think it would add a good deal of perspective to see the events as they happened and what people said and did at the time. I lack an expertise in a lot of areas (economics, military, diplomacy and so on.) Any help would be appreciated if anyone is interested. Maybe someday someone smarter than me can put the compilation to some use and write a definitive history of our war for the ages.