“It smells like an effort by some to put a radical U.S. nuclear counterproliferation doctrine on the table now, so when it’s the end of the year and it’s time to deal with that other Muslim country with the destabilizing nuclear capability—you know, the one on the other side of Afghanistan, the one that the Israelis are so upset about—public opinion has been primed to accept the idea that some combination of air strikes, special ops, and insertion of U.S. forces is needed to save the world from an Islamic nuclear program that’s…outta control!”

The Taliban nuclear non-threat seems to be more of a concern to western-agencies than the civil-war the U.S. government is trying to instigate. They should understand that the only way such a scenario can ever unfold is if the rank and file of the Pakistani Army turn on their Generals; something which the U.S. is instigating by forcing the Pakistani Army to slaughter its citizens.

Also see: Eric Margolis: U.S. stirs a hornet’s nest in Pakistan

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