MEANwhile, back to the world stage.....

[FOTD]

A Bitter Rivalry Shatters Pakistan's Ruling Coalition

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?em

"The coalition's failure, after just five months of governing Pakistan, worsened the leadership crisis in this nuclear-armed nation at a time when it faces a serious threat from the growing strength of the Taliban in the northwestern parts of its territory."

and,US continues to ratchet up tensions with Russia!!!!!!!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/geor-a26.shtml

"The Bush administration moreover announced that Vice President Dick Cheney would visit the Georgian capital of Tbilisi next week as part of a tour of former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact nations that are now allied to the US and ruled by virulently nationalistic and anti-Russian governments. Cheney heads a faction within the Bush administration that has long pushed for an even more belligerent and aggressive policy toward Russia than that carried out by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice."

"The Russian government is incapable of responding to the aggressive and provocative policy of the US except by counterposing to Washington's drive for hegemony in the Caucasus and the Eurasian continent its own Russian nationalism and militarism."

"Indicative of the bipartisan support for the Bush administration's reckless and belligerent policy toward Russia, with its ominous implications of a potential military clash between nuclear armed powers, is an interview with Saakashvili reported in Monday's New York Times. The article notes that the Georgian president is convinced of unqualified US support for his drive to reassert control over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, saying he "spoke by phone with the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Senator John McCain, as often as twice a day, and that he was in regular contact with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has been picked to run for vice president on the Democratic ticket."

HMMM!? A very dangerous game: the obvious bluster could escalate into an air war that turns nuclear. This is worst case scenario, Putin likely understands that this is empty posturing by the US.

"Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks"
Jack Fate aka B. Dylan (8-27-08 Brady)