Obama -- he's my man

Well, maybe not ... but he is sure talking like he means to step out from behind the now-traditional Democrat hand wringing non-interventionism. Bill just sent missiles that didn't hit anybody. He also sent troops to the Balkans -- after our aircraft shot up every moving thing (oh, wasn't that unilateral, without UN sanction?). But since 9/11, and the ensuing Iraq fiasco, Democrats have been afraid of their shadow. It plays well to their constituency -- orthodox liberals.

But Barack has taken an unsual step: he had threatened the two-faced hypocrites of Pakistan with direct military intervention. He has put the Euro-"allies" on notice that if elected, the White House will not stand by while the Taliban re-equip and recuperate behind Pakistani lines where we cannot touch them. Really, when you think about it, it is a stupid way to run a war -- childish even -- with the notion of "safe" on base. They want to kill us and restore a thuggish theocracy, and yet we have to smile and make nice to Pakistan, a country itself in fear of the same religious zealots?

The wild card being ... the bomb. Barack has not addressed the fact that we would be attacking yet another sovereign nation and one with a bomb. Hmmm. And they have to watch what they do internally to avoid a radical Islamic revolution which would then have ... the bomb. Inconvenient, that!