Yup that's why its a great idea to arm a nation that is one bullet away from being our enemy. If our interests are going to be threatened, why not have them threatened by our own weapons right? I say we give them a few ICBMs while we are at it. After all, we can keep living the cold war forever, can't we? ;)
yeah, we could always pull a carter and let musharaff fall like the Shah. I recall reading the US generated a lot of good will in its response to the recent earthquake. This is something that worked incredibly well in indonesia after the tsunami.