KARACHI, May 22: Armed militants stormed into a naval airbase here on Sunday night, destroyed three aircraft and killed at least five people four navy personnel and a foreigner whose nationality could not be ascertained.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/23/terrorists-attack-navy-airbase-in-karachi-destroy-three-aircraft.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13497328 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/world/asia/23pakistan.html?_r=1 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/201152218582675282.html You'd think a country with nukes could easily deter others from attacking it, apparently not. Nukes didn't prevent the USA from ignoring Pakistan's sovereignty and killing Osama bin Laden and nukes didn't prevent us from killing innocent Pakistani citizens with drones. Nukes are a horrible blight on the planet. We should destroy every last one of them. But now that militants have breached Pakistan's well-secured navy airbase in Karachi, a possible site for nukes, it would make sense to call for destruction of nukes, but I doubt it. It wouldn't surprise me if the next thing we hear is a scary news story saying Pakistan can't be trusted to keep its nukes from terrorists. I I certainly hope we haven't lost our minds enough to launch an operation to seize Pakistan's nukes. But it's not too much of a stretch to think it's possible since we already have far more CIA agents and special forces operating there than Pakistan wants. American hegemony sucks and it worries me.
