The drums of war are beating again, this time along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the impact is far beyond the mountains of the Durand Line.(1) This is not a border issue; it is another tremor within the global crisis of capitalism and a step towards imperialist slaughter. According to the bourgeois press, this particular conflict started when Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban government of nurturing terrorist groups such as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and using them for terrorist attacks inside Pakistan.