[DavidG]

Originally posted by rextorres:

Umm . . . actually the Pakistani military (which actually runs the country) is very supportive of the Taliban and filled with extremists. What country do you think has been sponsoring terrorism in India? Where do you think the Taliban and Osama have been hiding? In factThere is less if anything linking Sadaam with terrorism than Pakistan with terrorism. Fortunately (for Pakistan) there is no oil there. My point with mentioning Pakistan is that this coming war is nothing about fighting terrorism.

Yea but isn't the Government actually pro American? I'm no expert on Pakistan but my understanding is that the government (yes being the top military boys) was trying to weed out the extremists. Certainly Osama my be in Pakistan but do doubt it is in a rural area that the government has little control off. Maybe I was wrong but I got the impression from your post that you were saying anti americal extremists were in charge of Pakistanis nuclear forces. And they clearly do not or they would have used them (at least under my definition of "anti-american extremist")