This is beginning to look real nasty and may drag us in a different direction. If AQ were to take over in Pakistan, it would have dire consequences for our mission in the ME.
Does anyone think this might be a good thing? If the intend is to sweep the country and make large quantities of terrorist types assume room temperature only using very nasty methods would it be bad? I will wait and see before passing judgment on this. What looks bad in the beginning may not end up that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that Pakistan has built 24-48 HEU-based nuclear warheads with HEU reserves for 30-52 additional warheads.[8][9] The US Navy Center for Contemporary Conflict estimates that Pakistan possesses between a low of 35 and a high of 95 nuclear warheads, with a median of 60.[10]
The NRDC's and the Carnegie Foundation's estimates of approximately 50 weapons are from 2002-3 estimations. In 2000, US Military intelligence estimated that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal may be as large as 100 warheads.[11]. The actual size is hard for experts to gauge owing to the secrecy which surrounds the program in Pakistan.
Pakistan's nuclear warheads are based on an implosion design that uses a solid core of highly enriched Uranium and requires an estimated 15-20 kg of material per warhead. The NRDC also thinks that Pakistan has also produced a small but unknown quantity of weapons-grade Plutonium, which is sufficient for an estimated 3-5 nuclear weapons per annum based on the estimation of 5 kg of Plutonium per warhead. Pakistan also claims that the fissile cores are stored separately from the other non-nuclear explosive packages which, as the Government of Pakistan states, can be put together rather quickly.
Don't be so pessimistic. The appearance of Bhutto and the closing of the Supreme Court and Parliament IMO signals that Mossh has had enough.
Jihadis should be preparing to meet their virgins.
Just rememeber that Bhutto wouldn't have come to Pakistan without invitation by Moosh, and she has no qualms about calling the jihadis the scuzzballs that they are.
I'm wondering - hoping - the opposite may be happening.
Heretofore, Musharif has conducted a bombed/backed off/cease fire campaign. His idea or restrictions on him?
India issues a "regrets" statement and we say we're "disappointed" and then we both skip on into hopes for future election, etc. -
I wonder if we aren't all in this together - if Musharif is free of restrictions, might he finally go full bore against AlQ and the Taliban? And might we be poised on the Afghan side of the border there with fire power to stop the overflow - stop dead - and if India isn't also poised on her border.
One thing for sure - we won't be hearing the REAL 'program' on the MSM before it's pretty well moped up...