Emergency in Pakistan

[SlowwHand]

HEY! A person does what a person has to do.
Not every day is pork chops. Sometimes it's Top Ramen.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Agathon
Osama bin Laden isn't stupid, and nor is he some James Bond villain.

No he's a nutcase. Or more precisely stated: He's an extremist, militant fundamentalist, who believes he's been annointed by God to bring Islam to the heathen world, that anyone who does not accept Islam is a sinner and that sinners must be killed.

That's bat**** insane. You've swallowed the insane right wing propaganda hook, line and sinker. Do you not understand Al Qaeda at all? Do you not understand why they did 9/11? I'll give you a clue: it was to get the USA to do something they wanted.

What, like leaving the Middle East to his gentle ministrations?
We didn't do it. So he attacked the U.S.S. Cole.
We still didn't do it. So he attacked our African Embassies.
We still didn't do it. So he attacked the World Trade Center.
We still didn't do it. Then perhaps he gets his hands on nukes. What do you think he's going to then--join hands and sing Kumbayah?

[Ramo]

Teh likelihood of Islamists taking power in Pakistan is slim.

Yep. It's kind of funny that Perv was claiming that the Supreme Courts and the Islamists were effectively in cahoots. No one's going to buy that outside of DC.

I also like his appropriation of Lincoln in justifying his behavior. Just adorable. I suppose if Bush can do that, why can't Musharraf?

I just don't know why Bhutto expected Mushie to behave in good faith. huge amount of naivite on her part, and she just pointless threw away a good chunk of her credibility. Assuming that Musharraf is toppled, Sharif is the main beneficiary here.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by PLATO


Very simply...you don't have to directly attack a country to threaten it's interest with nuclear weapons. I would think that nuking a couple of supertankers in the straights would effectively cripple the west's energy pipeline.

I believe that you are looking only at the strategic nature of nuclear weapons, when the tactical uses would serve islamofacism much better.

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While a nuke slamming into a supertanker would make a spectacular bonfire, wouldn't that be kinda overkill? I know big ships are hard to sink, but not impossible. You could probably do the same with a suicide boat filled with regular explosives, or a couple of surface-to-surface missile, or an air raid.