Reasons For Concern

It really looks like the entire South Asia/Middle East/Northern Africa is about to go up in flames:

 

1) King of Jordan Dismisses His Cabinet

 

2) Poland warns Belarus: Change or risk overthrow

 

3) Turkey: Mubarak Should Leave Now

 

4) India: Raja's arrest does not affect credibility of PM, govt: Congress

 

5) Pakistani soldier killed in border clash with Afghanistan (Roundup)

 

6) Report: Russia to retaliate against Ireland over spy claim

 

7) ANALYSIS-Palestinians expect a boost from new Egypt

 

8) Qatar men linked to terrorism attacks

 

9) Tunisian Interior Minister Says Security Services Spark Unrest

 

10) UPDATE 1-W.African currency zone worried about Ivorian fall-out

 

11) Sudan's protests triggered by long-term economic, political frustrations

 

12) Mubarak Fails to Quell Protests as Turmoil Spreads to Yemen

 

13) How leaders of Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and Yemen plan to keep control

 

14) Unrest in Egypt Risks Spreading Into Algeria, Standard and Poors Forecasts

 

15) African Unrest Puts Europe's Gas at Risk as Oil Gains

 

And then there's Egypt...

 

Look, a few of these, and I think with a little diplomacy and a lot of patience, we might see a peaceful resolution that enhances stability, in the short-term at any rate. What this kind of instability does is makes US foreign policy become a hodgepodge, because not only are these nations troublesome, but any tinpot dictator worth his salt, like Muammar Qaddafi, is going to start rattling sabres, looking to cut a deal with the US that will blow up in our faces eventually like Saddam Hussein did.

 

In the meantime, it only takes a spark...

 

This. Is. Scary.