Tuesday
May052009
Bright Idea of the Day: Attack Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 12:19
Noah Pollak on the blog of Commentary magazine: "The current chaos could provide a pretext for a U.S. operation to seize or destroy the Pakistani arsenal."
Mr Pollak doesn't explain how the US military might fulfil his brilliant idea or, perhaps how importantly, how this would contribute to the stability of Pakistani society and its government (which, I think, is still nominally a US ally). He doesn't make any connection between this whiz-bang strategy and the US approach to minor groups like Al Qa'eda and the Taliban.
Why, however, let any of this stand in the way of blowing up nuclear weapons?
Mr Pollak doesn't explain how the US military might fulfil his brilliant idea or, perhaps how importantly, how this would contribute to the stability of Pakistani society and its government (which, I think, is still nominally a US ally). He doesn't make any connection between this whiz-bang strategy and the US approach to minor groups like Al Qa'eda and the Taliban.
Why, however, let any of this stand in the way of blowing up nuclear weapons?
tagged Commentary, Noah Pollak, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Taliban, al-Qaeda in India & Pakistan
Commentary, Noah Pollak, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Taliban, al-Qaeda in India & Pakistan
Reader Comments (1)
The US doesn't know where all of the nuclear installations are. And captured nuclear weapons 'in transit' is the worrying part. If the government collapses and the country falls to hardline militants, then the US won't have much time to carefully assess the opportunity costs, and they will have already lost the country...