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Commentary: Pakistan showdown
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- What little attention Americans can spare for foreign crises during the winter Olympics in Sochi is usually monopolized by Syria's three-year civil war with its 140,000 dead and 2 million homeless refugees.
Sound and sight blur quickly as Syria's multi-front war extends into Iraq where volunteer Muslim guerrilla fighters gather from all over the world's Muslim communities -- Persian Gulf Arab states, Tunisia, Libya, Bosnia, Russia's Chechnya and North Caucasus regions -- and Muslim communities throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to Spain and even from the United States.
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- What little attention Americans can spare for foreign crises during the winter Olympics in Sochi is usually monopolized by Syria's three-year civil war with its 140,000 dead and 2 million homeless refugees.
Sound and sight blur quickly as Syria's multi-front war extends into Iraq where volunteer Muslim guerrilla fighters gather from all over the world's Muslim communities -- Persian Gulf Arab states, Tunisia, Libya, Bosnia, Russia's Chechnya and North Caucasus regions -- and Muslim communities throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to Spain and even from the United States.
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