[Uncle Miltie]

Re Pakistan:

Nukes, check.
Terrorists, well, on the wrong side of the law (so far).
Nuts, no. Musharraf is so far not nuts. The face off with India showed that he's no hair trigger on his WMD. Saddam in a similar circumstance would have an unacceptably high probability of launch.

Were Pakistan to go jihaddist instead of military dictatorship (odious enough), the I would agree, and preemption would be required.

[palmer]

What makes Saddam more hair triggery than Musharraf. They both seem to be strong on rhetoric, all talk and no action. If anything Saddam's lead footed experiment in Kuwait was a lot more predictable than anything Musharraf might do covertly in Kashmir.