Is Pakistan going to collapse???
I hope Obama is really focusing on this...
PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says.
The warning comes as the US scrambles to redeploy its military forces and diplomats in an attempt to stem rising violence and anarchy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we're calling the war on terror now," said David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer who was a specialist adviser for the Bush administration and is now a consultant to the Obama White House.
"You just can't say that you're not going to worry about al-Qaeda taking control of Pakistan and its nukes," he said.
As the US implements a new strategy in Central Asia so comprehensive that some analysts now dub the cross-border conflict "Obama's war", Dr Kilcullen said time was running out for international efforts to pull both countries back from the brink.
When he unveiled his new "Afpak" policy in Washington last month, the US President, Barack Obama, warned that while al-Qaeda would fill the vacuum if Afghanistan collapsed, the terrorist group was already rooted in Pakistan, plotting more attacks on the US.
"The safety of people round the world is at stake," he said.
Laying out the scale of the challenges facing the US in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Dr Kilcullen put the two countries invaded by US-led forces after the September 11 attacks on the US on a par - each had a population of more than 30 million.
"But Pakistan has 173 million people and 100 nuclear weapons, an army which is bigger than the American army, and the headquarters of al-Qaeda sitting in two-thirds of the country which the Government does not control," he told the Herald .
Added to that, the Pakistani security establishment ignored direction from the elected Government in Islamabad as waves of extremist violence spread across the whole country - not only in the tribal wilds of the Afghan border region.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:34 PM
7 Comments:
It was strange reading the recent Macleans story about the Taliban being a threat to the west. First, the strength of the Taliban has been growing in Pakistan for a very long time. They now are in the end game to win.
One wonders what took Maclean's so long to smell the roses.
Secondly, we shouldn't forget the Canadian Liberal establishment cheering the un-election of Musharaff. As if voting somehow means democracy. It will not be very much longer before the Taliban take over and have the bomb and the means of delivery.
I wonder how Taliban Jack and Iggy will defend these creeps when the have their finger on the big trigger?
I, for one, am going to sleep well tonight knowing thay we have a commmunity organiser in the White house that is dedicated to a nuclear free world and marxist principles.
Can the US election be done over.
I would not be sleeping to well, knowing some crazy could get hold of their Nukes.
My first post was sarcasm.
The Islamic religious fruitcakes of Pakistan are close to having a nuke.
Do you think they will use it?
Was Mohammad a pedophile?
I can almost guarantee that within 24 hrs of the Pakistani govt falling, Either Israel or the west will target crucial nuclear stockpile depots to either commandeer or destroy them.
Wow, Fred, Your're really on top of these matters. First the Nor.Kor. Uranium ship & now this.
Thanks. You're more informative than the local paper.
You live in Ottawa huh? My condolences. Move to Alberta. Your talents are wasted in asshole Ottawa.
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