Pssst...Pakistan, as a whole, is not the most pro-American country in the world. Musharraf essentially signed a peace agreement with the ungovernable parts of the country that are actively hiding the very people that were responsible for the September 11th attacks. He himself is an unelected military dictator that has forced out previous Prime Ministers that might challenge his rule. You think that's a happier, more stable situation than Iran?
Oh and Pakistan and India do have a history of threatening to wipe out neighboring countries. Each other. In fact, they have been pulled back from the brink of all out warfare (with nuclear weapons in play) several times. Low level skirmishes and armed hostilities between the two occur on a daily basis. I would argue that you are more likely to see nuclear weapons used in that region than you are in Iran. That is one of those bets, however, that is not one you want to lose, so I agree that the world needs to do the best job it can keeping nuclear weapons from proliferating. Anywhere. Judah Robert Munn wrote: > Your calculus assumes that Iran will never start a war on its own, and that > diplomacy has a snowball's chance in hell of working. > > NK, Pakistan, and India have the bomb, but none of their leaders stand on a > platform chanting "Death to America" on a daily basis. None of their leaders > regularly deny historical acts of genocide or threaten to wipe out > neighboring countries. The most hostile is NK, and the only reason Kim Jong > Il is still in power is that he has the backing of the Chinese (who fear > American military power and Korean democracy on their borders) and enough > artillery to detroy Seoul and kill hundreds of thousands of people in any > conflict. Basically, he is holding the South Koreans hostage, which is what > the Iranians want to do to the Middle East and, by extension, the rest of > the world via the oil supply. You think that is an acceptable scenario? BS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243419 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
