The problem is, your solution to the threat of WMD in the hands of Muslims, just isn't practical. It might, just might, work in Iraq. But that's just the easiest "problem government" to overthrow. When you look at trying to apply the same solution to all the other similar situations, it should be apparent how unworkable your solution is. The idea that all the other "problem governments" are going to collapse or reform when they see what we did to Iraq, is the purest wishful thinking.
From the article:
<Do we really want to find out what a large, nuclear, Arab dictatorship is capable of?>
Whether we like it or not, we're going to find out. No choice; it's already happened. Pakistan is large, nuclear, a dictatorship, and Muslim. The Pakistani army and intelligence service were the Godfathers of the Taliban. The government is undemocratic, illegitimate, acts as a parasite on the rest of the country, and panders to the strong Islamist tendencies inside Pakistan (who could be the rulers after the next coup).
Are we going to do "regime-change" then "nation-building" in Pakistan? Iran? Saudi Arabia? North Korea? We have to find a different solution, because yours (and the Bush Admistration's) won't work. |
