On 8 Okt., 18:11, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> As to the Taliban and nukes, I guess I have missed this occurrence. Of
> course, for years there were simple instructions on the web as to how
> to produce nukes as well as books in libraries all over the world. It
> is all too easy to acquire the materials to make such a thing. That
> genie (Djinn) has long been out of the bottle. I have met the enemy
> and it is us. A fine mess indeed!
>
The Taliban are no longer - indeed they never were - a purely Afghan
phenomenon- Many of their roots, strongholds, and much of their
support are across the border in Pakistan. This area is all part of
the old Gunga Din "North West Frontier" and borders don't mean much to
the inhabitants, where older familial, community, tribal and feudal
structures were always much more important. General collapse, civil
war and an increase of fundamentalist Islam in Pakistan is the real
worry here. The idea of a resulting fundamentalist Taliban-like regime
in part of a war-torn Pakistan is not far-fetched, and it is here that
a real concern about nuclear weapons arises. The Pakistani army has
nuclear weapons. So does India. There's something eerily prophetic
about Neil's scenario.
Francis
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