Red Harvest

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/pakistan.missile/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

And so America's campaign to reclaim it's international standing begins with a bang. Unilateral American military action which ignores the wishes of the sovereign nation in which the action is occurring seems like an odd first move for a man who has spent so much time harping on the need for America to rejoin "the international community" unless one considers that perhaps the point of said reconciliation is in order to perform such military action with less visibility and transparency than was possible under Bush.

What's frightening is the breadth of military power and influence America possesses, a nation which finds itself on our Naughty list has no recourse but to accept punishment. Pakistan which has endured every sort of libel from American politicos who don't understand a whit of it's situation, can only politely ask that we refrain from firing missiles into it's airspace without consulting them. To the great unwashed masses here in America, Pakistan is just little brown people running about; sometimes murdering the leaders we've appointed to rob them blind. It's a dirty town...

We've traded the cowboy for The Continental Op--and he's going to clean up Poisonville whether Poisonville wants to be clean or not.