The big stick diplomacy of Bush's administration gets you this:

Russia suspends the arms control pact that controlled the amount of heavy weapons deployed:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.

Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.

Russia has been angered by US plans to base parts of a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) limits the number of heavy weapons deployed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals mountains.

'Cornerstone'

The Russian suspension will become effective 150 days after other parties to the treaty have been notified, President Putin's decree says.

The suspension is not a full-scale withdrawal - but it means that Russia will no longer permit inspections or exchange data on its deployments.

Pakistan may have caused more problems by their actions with the Red Mosque, trying to please the White House instead of defusing extremism in their own citizens:

The number of soldiers killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy in north-western Pakistan has risen to 18, an army spokesman has said.

Twenty-eight others were hurt when the convoy was hit in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan.

A spokesman acknowledged the attack could be linked to the storming of the Red Mosque earlier this week.

Troops have been sent close to the area amid fears militants may be planning a "holy war" in response to the siege.

The 102 people killed in the week-long siege included 11 soldiers and an as yet unknown number of extremists and their hostages.

The government's operation against the radical Islamists sparked protests across Pakistan

In the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday more than 1,000 demonstrators vowed to avenge the death of the mosque's deputy leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi.