Cursor's Media Patrol - 02/22/06

An Asia Times report says the situation in Pakistan "is fast coming to a head," with President General Pervez 'Musharraf losing his grip.'

With its missile strike on Damadola, the U.S. "handed the Islamists a victory of considerable proportions," which according to Andrew Bacevich arose from the Bush policy of 'Sending a general to do a sheriff's job.'

The Washington Post reports that wildlife biologists at the Bureau of Land Management have been taken out of the field and put to work processing drilling permits, quoting one biologist who recently quit as saying that he "spent less than 1 percent of my time in the field."