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Nuclear-armed Pakistan is becoming a “mortal threat” to the world, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Pakistan poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world,” Clinton said. “And I want to take this occasion … state unequivocally that not only do the Pakistani government officials, but the Pakistani people and the Pakistani diaspora…need to speak out forcefully against a policy that is ceding more and more territory to the insurgents…”
Taliban militants Tuesday took over the northwestern Pakistan district of Buner, just 60 miles from the capital of Islamabad. Militants were patrolling its streets with no signs of government law enforcement personnel, Pakistan’s English-language newspaper Dawn reported. The move came after the Taliban last week imposed Shariah, or strict Islamic law, in the neighboring Swat Valley as part of a peace agreement with the government.
“(We) cannot underscore the seriousness of the existential threat posed to the state of Pakistan by the continuing advances now within hours of Islamabad that are being made by a loosely confederated group of terrorists and others who are seeking the overthrow of the Pakistani state,” Clinton said.
What do you think Pakistan should do to counter the Taliban threat?
#18–Hi Jag==I appreciate the reference but wasn’t the USA’s use of ONE bomb nothing but reasonable?
There were other alternatives like an ocean or island demonstration but why be “kind” to those who launched sneak attacks and Kamakazee raids?
Why indeed not eve explode the Second Bomb because indeed NOT ONE allied life was worth the delay????
#21 – bobbo – I appreciate the reference but wasn’t the USA’s use of ONE bomb nothing but reasonable?
Yes, it shortened the war. I won’t argue that point. But the day the terrorists blow a nuke, it will seem reasonable to them. Just keep that in mind.
Why indeed not eve explode the Second Bomb because indeed NOT ONE allied life was worth the delay????
So, in your eyes, one American is worth 80,000 Japanese.
What advantage is there for the Taliban to use nukes pre-emtively (is that a word?)? It would mean their own annihilation and I’m sure they know that. The nukes are a defensive mechanism to ensure the integrity of the state.
I’ve no idea how the world solves the ‘Pakistan Problem’ but I suspect Ron Larson’s conclusion is correct.
The Taliban and Al Qaeda are the original threat and should be neutralized with any methods available.
#22 It wasn’t just one Americans life. Many reports estimated fatalities on both sides to exceed half a million if America had invaded the mainland. Many, many more Japanese would have been killed as well as Americans. Think of all the Japanese lives that would have been saved if they had not started a war with the U.S. in the first place.
Written in 2003:
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2003/09/three-conjectures-pew-poll-finds-40-of.html
#25 Americans are afraid of a lot of things : blacks, killer bees, pirates, liberals, bad teeth, communists, socialists, canadians, Muslims, bird flu, immigrants, Ruskies, Iran, solar power, terrorists, protestors, combat veterans, pornography, homosexuality, intraspection, academics….the list goes on. Cant nuke em all.
#24 – GF
Or it could have ended with just the 140,000 dead in Hiroshima and a Japanese surrender.
The US created and are still in full control of the ‘Taliban threat’, this whole thing is bullshit.
I hope that the truck bomb is placed in Washington DC.
# 29 Faxon said, “I hope that the truck bomb is placed in Washington DC.”
This thread is about threats to us, not, beneficial actions. Please, stay on topic.
All they have to do is stop Canadians from crossing the border. It’s the newest defense against terrorism.
This blog is getting too politically incorrect for its own good. If the New York Times and Washington Post don’t cover it, no American should cover it. If Fox covers it, Murdock will silence them.
The economy would tank if this bad news got out. And Obama is in the hot seat.