Opportunism is the name of the game. Israel takes advantage of the world's focus on Afghanistan to pummel the Palestinians, to drive tanks into a moth-eaten Palestine, to paint opposition as terrorism and beget terrorism itself. Tony Blair dons the robes of headmaster to a boy's school in decline and decides to cane the Afghans to make up for a Great Game gone sour. And India, never far behind, led by a rapacious and unscrupulous government of the Hindu Right, begs for entry into the impatient coalition, pleads for permission to be the Gunga Din of the oily New World Order, to sow terror among its own people as it shows its democratic teeth to the world.