FRONT PAGE: "U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike In Pakistan," by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 18 March 2009.

Now we're thinking about strikes in Baluchistan, or southern Pakistan, because our success in strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas are pushing Taliban in that direction to a certain extent.

Absent the patent self-destructiveness on trade, I would be far more likely to support this, but the more Obama engages in protectionism while saying otherwise, the more I see the world's other great powers leaving America to hang alone as we accumulate a larger conflict zone in Pakistan.

We may not see the connections, but they will.