Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.
What, in god's name, for? Do they need MORE chaos?
Do you even need to ask?
I'm hoping this isn't a Gavrilo Princip moment.
That's crossed my mind, too. It's been mentioned by the Kossacks, but I didn't think much of it given their sensationalist tendencies. It does kind of have the feel of that potential, though, but perhaps that's just a result of my inability to gauge what it means in the big picture. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
This is an escalation of degree that goes far beyond the previous US air-attacks on the country.
It also means the US was going to knife Musharraf in the back, once Bhutto was in. Maybe he saw it coming. Maybe others saw it to. I can see the list of people who wanted Bhutto dead growing by the hour.
Meanwhile: A serious setback to US policy: Who can they get now to invite US troops into the country?
Maybe they will just go in anyway.
But this is going to cost. In more ways than one. The Fates are kind.
It's all sad that this Bhutto saga was kind of expected. But only cynics in power seem to know what to do in this shock, and how to do it.
But I don't expect him to last long now.
It looks like the US will be opening another front in its endless war, one way or another. The Fates are kind.
