Ed FirmagePakistani Nuclear Bus Heading Straight For Us
I have spent most of my life looking the wrong way as I stepped off the curb. It’s one way to examine many oil pans on autos and buses. But there is a cost.
About a decade ago, as I traveled through Kashmir, situated between a nuclear India and a nuclear Pakistan, on trips to work in Dharamsala and its environs for the government of H.H. The Dalai Lama, and for the next decade several times a year, I became hugely aware that this was, without a doubt, the most dangerous land in the world.
Both states possess nuclear weapons. Both are fueled with racial, ethnic and most inflammatory, religious bigotry against each other, Hindu and Muslim.
But Pakistan has a most fragile democratic base. Or more accurately, it’s still trying to form a democratic state. That precious commodity really takes a few centuries of a rule of law community before it is born. And it must be birthed organically, not by war and death and horror, before a democratic base can even slowly take place. It is Pakistan, as I said ten years ago and every month, somewhere, since, that is by far the most dangerous part of the world. That, not Iran or Iraq or North Korea, is my bet for the origin of World War Three.
At the moment, the Neocons are blabbering about Iraq, and now Iran, as the Great Satan. Iraq never was such a threat until Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld in one moment created more damage in Pakistan and a threat, a real threat of Armageddon, from which life itself, not simply the United States of America, may not survive.
Our saber-rattling right now regarding Iran has spiked oil prices by a third, hurt us terribly in Iraq and just might produce the war the Neocons seem to want with all their oil-driven pocketbooks. (You know, that place where other people have hearts.) They have almost surely unhorsed their lackey now heading the Pakistani state. They have severely undercut their chances of stability in the most dangerous state in the world.
The Pakistani nuclear bus is heading straight for us and Bush, with us in tow, is right now stepping off the curb.
Ed Firmage
Salt Lake City, Utah
November 5th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I wish we could all go back to 1999, when Bush could not name the leader of Pakistan and Al Gore still had a chance of becoming President.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Hindsight is a very wonderful thing, Richard. Makes you wonder, though, weather the Westboro folks are spot on, and God is punishing us by making Americans incredibly stupid - so stupid, even, as to support the likes of Boob-Boy Bush - in addition to killing soldiers. [disclaimer - it is a joke]
November 5th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Maybe I need to go back and read more history, but it aggravates me to no end that we have so entangled ourselves in the Middle East that we scarcely know which way is up. To have relied on Musharraf seems to me to be a colossal mistake, but to have apparently painted ourselves into that corner is even worse.
This is why I support Ron Paul for President. He seems to me to be the only candidate on either side who understands the critical nature of calling off the American dogs from the four winds and bringing them back to the US to mind our own dadgum business.
Fool us once–Iraq–shame on you, Bush. Fool us twice–Iran–…maybe Nephi is right about the Westboro folks. Can we really be stupid enough to buy into the Iran-is-the-enemy crap? I hope not. But Bush seems to be banking on it.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Frank, there IS Dennis Kusinich!