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You would prefer the Taliban with nukes then I take it?

What part of our billions of dollars of aid to Pakistan guarantees that the Taliban will never get nukes?

We can talk all we want about being friends to oppressed people, being a beacon of freedom, etc but as long as we keep supporting Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, etc we will look like hypocritical stooges.

Maybe you want *your* tax dollars going to a military dictator who siezed power through a coup. I do not. The lesser of two evils is still evil.

We can talk all we want about being friends to oppressed people,

Nobody's talking about that.

All we're doing is buying time. We don't possess the military capability to go into Pakistan at the moment. We've got a lot on our plate. If we don't help Musharraf and the Taliban takes him down, the Taliban gets those nukes. Then what? They've already tried to kill him three times. Giving him monetary aid is not an end solution but it's something we can do at the moment as opposed to sitting around waiting for bin Laden to become the world's first terrorist nuclear power. There are no guarantees. If you're looking for a guarantee might I suggest a different planet? You're not going to get one on Earth. If throwing money Musharraf's way gives him sufficient carrot to put pressure on the fundies in his North West Province I won't object to it.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Yeah, well, whenever faced with a choice between the two, you always have to pick the lesser one- like it or not.

You still haven't offered a better solution. That's the bottom line. If you can come up with one there's a lot of people out there that would probably like to know about it.

You're right, propping up tinpot dictators has really messed us up in the long term. Similarities between Mush and Saddy:
1. Both military dictators.
2. Both with WMD aims,
3. Both regimes in Islamic countries,
4. Both terroristas sponsors.

The difference is that Mush ALREADY has his Islamic bomb and chem and bio warfare (courtesy of his pals the North Koreans he's also got high end missiles (the ones test fired today are of Chinese or NK design, just renamed -- typical slamic 'innovativenes') for which he gave the NKoreans nukes). Also, this regime rules a rabidly slamofascist country which provides a training ground to slamic terrorists that have threatened the US.