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Varnished with a pale yet discernible mixture of complacency and pomposity, the developing assumption of late regarding America’s sub-prime crisis is that greedy, careless borrowers, and not bankers, should be held accountable for much of the emerged mortgage mayhem.

Against the backdrop of a blur political landscape, the US election caravan makes another stop in its long journey, as candidates, campaigners and media descend in South Carolina.

While race, drugs and rock’ n’ roll dominate the political news agenda, accompanied by a mainstream media frenzy about tears and gender issues, Paul Rogers’ latest openDemocracy article, Iran and Pakistan: Danger signals, acts as an alarming reminder on  the immediate foreign policy challenges which the US presidential wannabes and their campaigns have been astonishingly ignoring or avoiding, for a nation that has declared and runs an abiding and unpredictable war.