There's a story out today that India says its ruling out war with Pakistan, saying there is "no possibility of war" and I just wonder how they can say that. As the news story from AP news at excite.com points out, a million soldiers are still in place on the border...a MILLION soldiers. This is not insignificant, folks. Nothing has happened to change the conditions that existed a few weeks ago. I guess I think this is just talk, and that nothing has changed that much. Its not a part of the world I'd feel comfortable visiting at this point, that's for sure!

It seems like one minute we were all waiting for these 2 countries to go war, afraid of where it would lead, and then suddenly because the leader of Pakistan says he will stop incursions across the border, we are all supposed to say "Okay, no problem, nothing to worry about"??? Its not that I think we should sit around worrying, but the situation there is terribly fragile. I think there is so much happening all around the world, we could be in danger of losing sight of how serious this particular situation remains.

Over at abcnews.com they have a story about a web site where you can bet on when the first nuke will be dropped in the India/Pakistan confrontation. If there is a tie, the winner is the one who guesses closest to the number of casualties. Supposedly the site is to show how terrible the whole thing would be...it just sounds nuts to me. Surely they aren't really betting on this?? Evidently its part of what is called "Death Pools" where people bet on when someone--a celebrity--is going to die. I know its a free country, a free internet, and people have the right to express their opinions...my opinion however, is that the Indo/Pakistani Death Pool is in really bad taste, as in disgusting.