A third front?

The news from Pakistan is not good — both because the terrorist networks seem to have deeper roots there than we’d like and because the new president seems willing to widen the war along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. This is a dangerous gambit that should remind liberals that Barack Obama was never the peace candidate, only the anti-Iraq War candidate.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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