Posted on 11/07/2015 11:09:24 PM PST by Cronos
With as many as 120 warheads, Pakistan could in a decade become the world’s third-ranked nuclear power, behind the United States and Russia, but ahead of China, France and Britain. Its arsenal is growing faster than any other country’s, and it has become even more lethal in recent years with the addition of small tactical nuclear weapons that can hit India and longer-range nuclear missiles that can reach farther.
These are unsettling truths. The fact that Pakistan is also home to a slew of extremist groups, some of which are backed by a paranoid security establishment obsessed with India, only adds to the dangers it presents for South Asia and, indeed, the entire world.
..At the moment, Pakistan is a pariah in the nuclear sphere to all but China;
..Pakistan has done itself no favors by refusing to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and by giving nuclear know-how to bad actors like North Korea. Yet, it is seeking treatment equal to that given to India by the West.
..Pakistan cannot provide adequate services for its citizens because it spends about 25 percent of its budget on defense.
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Houston, we have a problem.
Another critical situation grossly mis-managed by Obama-Hillary-Kerry.
“Our present regime is funding and arming al queda and isis.”
Keep in mind, that the Pakistani nuclear program is for all intents and purposes, also the Saudi nuclear program. The Saudis have paid half of the costs.
Al Queada and ISIS both (coincidentally, I’m sure) adhere to the same exact school of religious interpretation and jurisprudence as the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Cowboy Chimpy Bushitler had the Pakistani nuclear arsenal closely regulated and under the direct supervision of the United States military and under tight guard.
The Pakistanis admitted that they had no choice but to buckle under to Bush's demands for American supervision because Bush would take the weapons away from them unless they agreed to our terms for securing the weapons.
Under Obama, all scrutiny has been abolished and Pakistan has been allowed to run wild with their nuclear program.
These are the same guys who started the Khan Islamic Nuclear Proliferation Network that Bush shut down.
Under the Obama Administration, no doubt Pakistan has once again covertly resumed it's plans to proliferate nuclear weapons to Islamic countries and has rebuilt the Khan Network that Bush shut down
How many does India have?
“Pakistan would have to stop pursuing tactical nuclear weapons ,and halt development of long-range missiles.”
Also they would “have to” “sign the treaty banning nuclear
weapons tests.”
The whole idea behind having nukes is not “having to” do
what people who have nukes tell you to do. Too bad the liberals
lost, or won depending on the way you look at it, that battle with Pakistan with the help of the New York Times no doubt.
This is a pretty silly editorial. Mostly just BS.
is it bs that the Pakis are the most dangerous of the moslem nutjobs?
All the more reason to vaporize Karachi and Islamisbad. (and probably a few others)
No. Whats your point? The article is just a bunch of BS.
Nothing new, nothing most people didn’t already know. It was just
a buffer piece for a rag of a newspaper.
they just see it as a state "somewhere there"
Most Americans don't realise that the Islamic nuclear Bomb already exists and Pakistan owns it now and will give it to AlQaeda/Islamic state/SAudi Arabia at some point in the future
“Most Americans don’t realise that the Islamic nuclear Bomb already exists and Pakistan owns it now and will give it to AlQaeda/Islamic state/SAudi Arabia at some point in the future “
Those that want to know already know, those that don’t, don’t
care. Like I said buffer piece. Just something to fatten up
an otherwise useless rag.
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