[2ndDivisionVet]

Just what we need: al Qaeda with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. Hope those lasers work.

[agooga]

Is it possible that Al Qaeda, sensing their loss of Iraq, are turning their attention to another weakened state, in another gambit for regional control?

[G8 Diplomat]

Exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Seems to be a theme, doesn't it?

[G8 Diplomat]

FReepmail if you want on or off

[Parley Baer]

The turmoil may give us opportunities that were not available before.Got to look at the positive side of it. Of course if hilary gets in all bets are off.

[casino66]

Hi. I did the same thing but...they’re many threads on this subject, all going at the same time. Somehow maybe, as one of our FRiends said, we can just make one ‘live’ thread.
Like I said, I started one too when several had started, so I am not picking on you.

[kinghorse]

if i’m al qaeda i aim straight up. as far as democracy in the unincorporated part of the world, refer to Diane West speech “What the President should say”.

[Future Snake Eater]

"I don't know what is going to happen to our country and for the first time in my political career so upsetting, disappointing and disillusioning."

Yeah, me too. Pakistan was always the poster child for rock-solid stability.

[G8 Diplomat]

I think I have come up with a generic name for all regions of Islamic instability....the TROPosphere!

(From meteorology, the troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs, which is sometimes violent and chaotic, “tropo” means “change”, and with Islamonuts running around blowing stuff up, stuff changes rapidly and gets violent and chaotic.)