Happy Xmas (War is Starting)*

Looks like Joe Biden was only half-right; we may get

» READ MORE: that international test

even before Barack Obama even takes the oath of office:

Sounds like it could be another false alarm -- these two countries have had several in recent years -- and let's hope so. War is always senseless on one level or another, but what anyone would expect to gain in a war involving these two nuclear powers is baffling, other than appeasing various militant factions in their own countries. This story also shows that dealing with weakened Pakistan is a bad situation for our efforts to do anything about al-Qaeda and related terrorism on their Afghan border.