Obama attention diverted --- Pakistan crisis
It is a certainty that this morning White House attention is taking a break from the economy, but it not a break that refreshes. Pakistan is in an escalating political crisis the immediacy of which cannot be underestimated. With its nuclear arsenal and pivotal postion between the middle east and southeast Asia, Pakistan is the linchpin of, understatement coming, a volatile region.
Yesterday the government banned meetings of more than four people in the two most populous provinces of the country. If levels of absurdity are indicative of the level of a crisis, it's a big one.
Yesterday the government banned meetings of more than four people in the two most populous provinces of the country. If levels of absurdity are indicative of the level of a crisis, it's a big one.
posted by John Borden at 7:47 AM
1 Comments:
Maybe this stuff in Pakistan is just the usual politics there, unsettling but ordinary. In any event we will likely find out Monday. Any good demonstration can't be without a bombing or an assasination, so we'll get a measure of the situation. No matter what happens, Bush pretty much tapped us out in Iraq and Afghanistan so what could we do.
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