Pakistan, a nation at war with Islamist militants, but still focused on India.

Christopher Hitchens wonders why we would want to wait to disarm Iran.

Anne Applebaum wonders where the alliance is that is supposed to be fighting in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, President Karzai, under pressure after a U.N. audit of the election found more fraud than a Cook County race for Alderman, has decided to accept a runoff election.

It looks like there will be more fighting in Darfur.

The big shots on Wall Street, after enjoying the benefits of a big public bailout, have decided that they really don't think the Democrats will refrain from their normal inclination to tie them up in financial regulatory knots, so they are hesitant to give them money. The image of Wall Street bankers making billions while ordinary Americans walk the unemployment lines would make a tremendous basis for a populist campaign, except that the Democrats are just as much in bed with the bankers as the Republicans. Obama missed his chance to go to war with the bankers from the outset. Of course, such a plan would have probably driven us into a Depression, but it would have given Obama the political juice to really hammer the GOP, as Roosevelt did, and eliminate them from political power for at least a generation. So, not only is Obama weak, he is not terribly politically astute. I'm sure, like Jimmy Carter, he'll make a wonderful ex-President.