Is It Time to Invade Pakistan?

Environmental Republican ^ | 4/23/09 | sswenviron

[sswenviron]

There is no way we can allow the Taliban in concert with al-Qaeda to take over the nuke facilities in Pakistan. One would hope that the Pakistanis would have moved the weapons after the previous attacks and it is imperative that the Obama administration find out if they were indeed secreted out to another location. If not, we must press strongly for providing assistance and if they decline we must insist in the strongest possible terms. If that doesn't work, an invasion may need to be considered. A nuclear al-Qaeda is the worst of all possible scenarios. A tight blockade of the entire Pakistani coastline would be a requisite action and stopping and boarding all ships would be the only way we could ensure that a nuke was not smuggled out of the country. An action along the northern frontier to prevent transport out through one of the "stans" or west through Iran would require a major effort.

[PapaBear3625]

Then you would know that taking on the Pakistani army on their own turf would be nothing like taking on Iraq or Panama or Somalia. And invasion like this would number the casualties in the tens of thousands.

Pakistan has six times the population of Iraq, has rugged terrain with lots of places to hide, has lots of gun-owning citizens, and lots of people who make firearms in their garages.

Pakistan can be sterilized with enough WMDs, but not occupied.

[varon]

A security council resolution would easily pass as a result.

Especially if typed in all CAPS ;-)