There's a storm building and I've got a bad feeling about it. Is it a change in the wind? Was there something in my peripheral vision that caught my eye? What's making my gut speak tell me to beware? I've got a feeling of foreboding, as if something really terrible is about to happen. Could this be a reaction to all the fear mongering I've endured over the last week about how US markets are going to crash unless a $700 million poison pill tax bill is swallowed by American taxpayers? Or maybe my gut feeling is a reaction to my own fear of possibly becoming a victim of our twisted economy. Or, perhaps, I'm simply sick of the immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where the US has treated human life so cheaply. Then again, it might just be the deranged ideological republican politicians and the twisted McCain campaign and it's cynical VP pick.
I'm sure all those things contribute to my feeling of evil foreboding. But the real sad part is my total lack of confidence in our government, or any government, to take competent action. I especially have faith in the Bush administration to do the most incompetent thing of all, and now that is underway in Pakistan.
In 'The Long Road to Chaos in Pakistan,' Dexter Filkins notes concerns that "that the fledgling civilian government in Pakistan won't be able to survive the cross-currents of American pressure and the anti-American anger it stimulates," as Pakistan's northwestern frontier sees intense fighting between Taliban and Pakistani forces.
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