Most Dangerous Trouble Spot In The World Update

It seems like every day, there's a deadly bombing in Pakistan. What's scary about today's events is that they were in opposite ends of the country and may not have been related, meaning that there's just a general unrest among a radicalized portion of the population. But certainly, this is being spearheaded from the Waziristan region.

Attacks in the North-West Frontier Province are becoming a daily occurrence, with more than 100 people killed in the past week.

The upsurge in violence began after troops stormed the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad, following a week-long stand off with Islamist militants.

The assault prompted pro-Taleban rebels along the border with Afghanistan to scrap a controversial 10-month-old peace agreement with the government.

There never should have been a cease-fire to begin with. But we're too far gone to try and reverse that tragic miscalculation. I'm not sure what the Bush Administration thinks they can do if they still abide by their divided loyalties. The Pakistanis don't want us going into that tribal area. Yet Al Qaeda is massing and growing there, and the Musharraf government looks fairly powerless to stop it. This is something we could have dealt with 6 years ago, but now we have a nominal ally harboring known terrorists.

The ABC News article makes it sound like we're going to try for a surgical strike from the air. Yeah, because those always work so well. What did Bill Maher once famously say about how "we're the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from thousands of miles away"?

We have really screwed the pooch on this one, and now we're basically spectators.