The variety of possible topics for Monday’s commentary was so overwhelming that it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s take them one at a time:

Pakistan:  Until recently, we’d always thought of the al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents as a rag-tag bunch of skirmishers, more like commandos in their operational style than armies.  Think again. We now read that they are holding 30,000 Pakistani troops at bay in South Waziristan.  If there really is a War on Terror, this is the biggest and most important battle so far.  And if Pakistan loses, the world will become a far more dangerous place. Emboldened and refreshed, Radical Islamists would find it much easier to recruit new fighters and suicide bombers. The terrorists would also be further along the way toward seizing control of a Pakistani nuclear weapons capability that has been under development for 35 years. The potential consequences of this are almost too horrifying to » Read the full article