[Velveeta]

The Taliban is this close / / to seizing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

[Velveeta]

Posner’s analysis.

[Tarpon]

ZERO is going to send his Sec of State right out on the case. ..

After all, two brain dead idiots has got to be better than one.

[G8 Diplomat]

One of my professors—he teaches “Current Issues in the Middle East—is from Afghanistan, and he has said for 15 years that Pakistan is the most dangerous country on the planet.

He’s 100% right.

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

[avacado]

"Any store owner who has ever faced ever-increasing protection payments to local gangsters could have told the Pakistanis that their recent string of capitulations to the Taliban—striking peace deals and ceding territory—was doomed to failure.",

But could a community organizer tell you that?

Obama, white courtesy phone, asshat!

[Cindy]

OPINION:

So it seems.

[bubbacluck]

We need to send Secretary of State Clinton over there to begin talks. Dialogue is where it’s at!

[JimSEA]

You look aback at any great calamity of the last couple of hundred years and think, how could they have been so utterly stupid to have let that happen. Try it. The great depression, WWI and WWII. You can usually point back and say, "If only someone had stood up and done xyz."

To me, there seem to have been a lot of that kind of critical or tipping points just lately.

[darth]

India and Pakistan have been incredibly close to nuking each other a couple of times in the past. If the Taliban take over Pakistan I don’t see how India has any choice but a massive first strike. Like I said before, get your potassium iodide and calcium pills NOW. Don’t forget guns & groceries.

[B-Chan]

The SEALS and Delta boys had better already be en route. If those Bronze Age nutjobs get a nuke, we’re boned.