U.S. In Afghanistan Firing On Pakistan

No doubt semantics play a role in all of this. There's no doubt in mind that there are some in the Bush Administration that would love for a war of words to ratchet this thing into a full-blown military conflict. Some (myself included, unfortunately) see it as inevitable anyway unless something dramatic happens.

But, to me and many others, the thing that damns the Iranian leadership is the historical connotations and the religious animosity between peoples in that part of the world.