Pakistan could become next US nightmare

Pakistan could become next US nightmare
December 30, 2006
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IT HAS more than twice as many people as Iran, six times more than Iraq, many primed for Islamic extremism by a legacy of poverty and illiteracy left by decades of misrule by corrupt secular leaders, civilian and military.

It already has nuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles made with North Korean help. It shelters jihadists battling Western forces across its border, and fanatical cells training Muslim youth in Western countries to put bombs on buses and metros.

If Iraq has turned into a nightmare for the US President, George Bush, think about Islamists gaining power in Pakistan, population 166 million, and their hands on its nuclear arsenal.

Across the border in Afghanistan, 31,000 US, Canadian, European and Australian troops are fighting a resurgent Taliban in the country's south.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pakistan-could-become-next-us-nightmare/2006/12/29/1166895480059.html

Pakistan's problem isn't "corrupt secular leaders", it's corrupt leaders who've neem only too happy to play the religious card (with active US backing) to retain power. After all, that's what the country was created for.

Itself the artificial by-product of decades of British "divide and rule", Pakistan's the epitome of a state failed by its own ruling elite. So far it's the only country to have experienced secession by the majority of its population. It's a warning of what happens when superpowers exploit fragile societies for their own short-term ends.

Than the Russian/United States cold war.

WE EVER had to go to war, that was the place to go first for obvious reasons. Could? Wow, they are so behind these MSMsters

are the #1 supporters of terrorism against Americans in the world. They are cronies of Bush and other conservatives. Terrorism, fear and greed are the lifeblood of the current GOP. Pak and Saudi get their bloodlust filled for killing infidel Americans, the conservatives up to now get their wack -off dream of political hegemony. Nice deal. That's why they always must smear liberals and moderates as "terrorist supporters". Nice cover. We stupid Americans should have seen this after Tora Bora and the drum up for Iraq.