Italy is 200 miles away with a broken government.
Turkey is 200 miles away with an attempted assassination of it's Prime Minister.
Russia is a few hundred miles away with Putin's new role to be tested.
NATO on the brink of crumbling over Afghanistan deployments.
What better way to re-focus the regional powers attention, as well as that of the American electorate, than to have another 'civil war' in the Balkans?
(complete with Muslim extremists and conveniently providing cover for a new Israeli "incursion" into Gaza. scheduled for the same day as Pakistan's elections. coincidence ? )
