Pakistan and India escalation

About two hours ago posts to twitter announced to the world that Pakistan had cancelled military leaves and was beginning to move troops away from the Afghan border and toward the Indian border.

Obviously this is a continuation of the story which began over Thanksgiving when terrorists attacked Mumbai and killed and blew up many before being killed by Indian authorities. In the ensuing weeks it was released by India that the terrorists had direct connections to terror groups which are based and train in Pakistan.

My thoughts - first, Pakistan is playing a bit of a game with the world. They say they are fighting terrorism in the mountains next to Afghanistan but the truth is they don't want to break up the tribal regions for fear of a civil war. They say they aren't funding terror operations to attack India, but similar to the Afghan terror world prior to 9-11 they are allowing it to continue.

For the first time in years the nation of Pakistan has a democratically elected President, our chosen one during the initial thrust of War on Terror, was not elected. How therefore do we balance our desire to support freedom and democracy, with our desire to destroy Terror and those who support it?

Bhutto Assasinated

In a blow to peace in Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was assasinated Thursday by a suicide bomber.

Suicide Attack on Rally May Have Killed BhuttoNew York Times - 25 minutes agoBy SALMAN MASOOD and GRAHAM BOWLEY RAWALPINDI, Islamabad - A bomb blast devastated a political rally being held by the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, Thursday, killing several people and seriously injuring Ms.Report: Bhutto killed in attack CNNExplosion heard at Bhutto rally CNN InternationalBloomberg - Reuters - Guardian Unlimited - FOX Newsall 285 news articles »

Christopher Hedges in Northwest Indiana

War in Iraq is a success

I get a little sick of hearing all the talk of how the "entire" American public has lost interest in the War on Terror and just wants our troops home. Do they want all our troops home, from South Korea, from Kosovo, how about from Japan too?

No, they just want the troops home from Iraq because we were having a hard time beating the little militias over there and we were seeing our troops give up their lives, the biggest sacrifice.

Well, why is it then that when good news about success in Iraq begins slowly leaking out, the press nor the pundits have the time to say anything? The British are turning over control of an entire province to the Iraqi's. That's a success right?