Every bomb, every dead civilian adds to the ranks of the insurgency and alienates ordinary Pakistanis, the majority of whom loathe what America is doing in its foreign policy (that should read ‘foreign policy’).

No one has ever been able to control the remote north of Pakistan. No one ever will.

If the government of Pakistan disintegrates it will increase the power of militant Islamists. Rampant inflation, food shortages, high unemployment and high prices are not helping the cause. One can but hope that someone reliable has the keys to the nuclear arsenal.

Bush has wasted years distracted by the sideshow in Iraq. He is now playing catch-up in the manner of a headless chook.

There is another threat inherent : the continued presence of AQ Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program. Kahn is sympathetic to al-Qaeda. He ran (probably still runs) a clandestine network to supply nuclear technology. He knows where to get anything he wants. We can but hope that his help is not enlisted to build the ‘nuclear suitcase’ which could be transported up a people smuggling track into the south of America, thereafter taken to New York or Washington or Los Angeles or…

The situation in Pakistan is very, very dangerous. If it descends into chaos, the position of troops in Afghanistan could become periilous.

George Bush made several mistakes as the President, and it includes siding with Pakistan in the war on terror. Every intelligence agency in the world knows that Pakistan is the SOURCE of terrorism. Their open support to Taliban when they were in power, AQ Khan’s Nuclear weapon bazaar speak for themselves.

It is foolish to think that any civilian Pakistani government can control its military. Army still calls the shots and governments just sing along…. You didn’t read what their PM said today?

That is the only way. I doubt that happen. I really think Balochistan will separate from pakistan an punjab and sindhi provinces will also separate.

Whether after USA nuke pakistan or india nuke pakistan is up to pakistanis. Ofcoursan will provoke it by nuking bombay and delhit and wiped off the map by USA and RUSSIA AND INDIA.

China can’t do anything. US military base will be established in idia secretly neat chinese border. Why USA give Nuke gift?. They will make India colonized like USA colonize japan and Germany and south korea.

The other issue with the news of these attacks is that each and everyone of them, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan, always kills hordes of women and children.

Anyone familiar with the history of the region knows that this technique for gaining, not just sympathy, but good hard cash for each of the “dead” relatives, depends on the cultural and religious mandate to bury the dead quickly whenever possible, by sunset or within 24 hours. This makes the verification of the dead nearly impossible.

The Brits began this payoff system to keep the tribes in order during the days of the empire and the locals practice the scam today, only with a little more sophistication: Cell phone images of bloody sheets wrapped around bodies of the dead.

Since the heart stops beating and blood stops flowing after death, that all the sheets are bloody becomes an indicator of stagecraft, rather than fact. And goats bled and butchered for the best meat leave enough bones and bulk to be the “bodies” of children. And there are always far more children than women. The adult bodies probably are real, with some goat blood for effect, but also those of the men who were killed in the fighting.

Will there be the killing fields next?

Do we not read history?…is not Vietnam enough of a history lesson?