Monday, June 20, 2011

Is the U.S. getting ready to wipe out Pakistan's nukes and terror machinery?


The recent reports about how Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is figting to keep his job and how adamant anti-U.S. forces in the army have become are cause for serious concern.
If Pakistan falls to a military coup by Islamist officers, there is very real danger of the state itself using nuclear weapons for terrorist purposes -- at least making them available to terrorists.
The option before the United States and other world nations in such an event are not very palatable: take out Pakistan and its weapons.
The haste with which the United States is trying to get out of Iraq and Afghtanistan makes me think the Americans are already getting ready for such an eventuality.
They cannot take on and destroy the state-sponsored and protected terror apparatus in Pakistan if the U.S. army continues to be fighting many wars that are bleeding their resources.
And considering that the Pakistanis have a direct or indirect hand in fueling these conflicts, it makes eminent sense to destroy the fountainhead of terror than to let their army fight such bleeding actions which do not achieve much.
So is the U.S. getting ready to finally "bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age?"
Not sure, but from the haste with which they are trying to get out of Afghanistan -- by even talking to the Taliban -- and the simultaneous arm-twisting of the Pakistanis -- show the Americans have finally started seeing sense.
The world of Islamic terror cannot be wiped out without wiping out Pakistan.
And it is only karmic justice if the Americans -- who helped set up Pakistan as a dirty-tricks state -- do it.

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