Sounds like Nepal has a problem.
Naturally the author, since we are now leaving Iraq, wants it to be our problem. We will start seeing a lot of this.
I've been trying, but I can't see how Nepal, whether it goes commie or not, important to the national security of the US. It's hardly what you would call strategically located.
It's sandwiched between the two most populous countries in the world, both of which are becoming more powerful all the time. It is isolated from China by the highest mountains in the world and from India by flat land. Seems like Nepal is, and should be, India's concern, not ours.