Sarah Palin Was Right #12: Missle Defense - Pakistan

- by upinak

If anyone has been keeping up with The Palination (my own blog), you may remember how I sort of pieced together how Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and China seemed to be working toward some type of exchange of oil, nuclear items and weaponry.

But I also mentioned Pakistan. What was the deal with that nation?

Well, on Drudge report, I spied something concerning Hillary Clinton and how she is downplaying Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. This, IMO, is not a good idea:

Clinton said extremists were "increasingly threatening the authority of the state, but we see no evidence that they are going to take over the state. We have confidence in the Pakistani government and military's control over nuclear weapons."

Miliband told reporters at a joint news conference with Clinton that although Pakistan faced a "mortal threat" from extremists, there was no danger of its nuclear weapons being compromised.

And of course this from FT.com:

Attackers in army uniforms struck at the headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday.

The strike was the third major assault in a week – after bombs in Islamabad and Peshawar – in an apparent campaign to deter a planned army offensive against Taliban strongholds in the country’s Waziristan region along the Afghan border.

Particularly worrisome is that I purposely had to put Pakistan in the last "Palin-was-right" blog entry on missile defense as a question mark. Why? Because we really do not know what may come about. They are hated by India, as Pakistan was once part of India when it was part of the British Empire, and India now has nuclear abilities as well. Kashmir, which was once claimed by both Pakistan and India, tries to avoid getting caught up in India and Pakistan's power struggle.

Pakistan has its problems, including a weak government and a small military half-infiltrated with men who just want to go to Paradise ASAP. Also, the government does not have much to say about the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan appears to be only a few steps away from being totally overrun by the Taliban. The world's news media seems to be downplaying this alarming fact.

Keep an eye on Pakistan.

- u