Actually the burden of proof is upto you: I'm not the one making this absurd claim of unopened missile crates, you are. You know when I buy a new car, I don't just leave it sitting in my garage, I drive it around.
My source is the Center for Non-proliferation Studies, USA. And btw, most sensible people would think that assembling and launching a missile is somewhat more complex than starting a car and driving it around!<g>
I do know that the Pak military mucky-mucks spent an awful amount of time in Beijing before they were allowed to explode their devices (this is restraint?)
Yes, of course. Pakistan was not able to explode a nuclear device for 24 years after India did it first. In the meantime, there were all kinds of statements that Pakistan would catch up with India on the nuclear front (including the famous statement by Z. A. Bhutto). In spite of all that, the fact of the matter is Pakistan was unable to explode their nuclear devices until India did last year. Which they did, almost within 24 hours of India's tests.
Sure, maybe Gertz is part of that "vast right-wing conspiracy", but he still has better credentials than you. He spent a considerable amount of time covering national security for the Washington Times. Whereas you are just another anonymous geek on a chat room.
The point is not one of Gertz vs. me, or somebody else with the proper credentials vs. a supposedly-not-anonymous geek like you. It is about people like Gertz vs. the people with the proper credentials, and who are as well-informed as, if not better informed than, him. |
