It is perfectly obvious to me that Pakistan must not just be occupied, but dissolved.
The problem is that we have had two years to assemble and train armed forces capable of this, and we have not done so.
Bush and Rummy have perfected dispersing rival armies and overturning their governments with light or ultralight forces, and few casualties.
But this feat of military legerdemain does not allow for a heavy occupation and reformation of these enemy societies.
It is a serious, perhaps fatal, misjudgement that the leaders are the problem. They are not.
The leaders are barely staying alive themselves, allowing the war lust and hatred of their societies such expression as we will tolerate, while repressing its more serious forms which will provoke our reaction.
The USMC and Army SOF can chase the government of Pakistan out, break up its armed forces, and capture its nukes in a month.
Such an expeditionary force, however, has no chance of controlling the society which wouild result. Conditions in Pakistan would be worse, not better, afterwards.
I am very concerned that this is the future of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
And I am not one who believes we can walk away. If we do, the Islamist cultures are coming to kill our women and children. There is no doubt of it.
And there is no alternative to Bush. All his opposition is on the left-none speaks for what must be done.