Pakistan is, was, and remains the global nexus of Islamist terrorism, nuclear irresponsibility, heroin distribution, and irredeemably corrupt government.
Heroin refinement and distribution has been run by the ISI since 1985, and is to this day (70 percent of the world's output). It funded the nukes, the Taliban, the Kashmir terrorists.
Raise your hand if you seriously believe that Iraq is "the next target."
Yep.
Which could not have been done, except for America's drug laws......