The Pakistan situation is another sign that what we face is a global insurgency with many different fronts from Karachi to London. I’m not a big fan of the “world war” terminology because that cues people to think in terms of conventional powers arrayed against one another in a hot or cold war (although such conflicts obviously can have guerrilla wars within them). What we have now is pretty much entirely guerilla wars. Musharraf is fighting one that is probably going to get worse before it gets better