To me, it has seemed (for some time) that Pakistan is a far greater threat than Iraq. Pakistan is barely pro-Western, with a President who took the nation over during a coup and with a healthy nuclear weapons development program that has successfully built and tested nuclear bombs.

(Why do they sometimes call ‘em nuclear “devices”? What else are you going to use one for, if not to bomb something?)

The reason Pakistan is trouble is because they are barely balanced in favor of the West. There’s a large number of people in Pakistan who would be delighted to see the Pakistani government collapse and a religious-based theocracy or dictatorship gain power- and those guys would be perfectly happy to start tossing their nukes around at Israel or India or the USA.

Now we read more news suggesting that Pakistan is close to blowing up into a civil war of its own, or at least some form of insurrection. We are already pretty sure that Osama and his pals are running around in Pakistan near Afghanistan, and given how rough the border areas are it’s awfully hard to get good information on what’s going on.

After all, we haven’t caught Osama yet, have we?

This is yet another reason to be pissed off at the Bush Administration. The morale of our military is no doubt spiraling downward as it becomes more and more obvious to everyone that Iraq is a lost cause, but we’re still there, pissing away lives and limbs to fighting a non-existant “war on terror” in a place that didn’t have any freakin’ terrorists attacking the USA before we went there!

Meanwhile, we have other places where we might truly need our military, like in Pakistan or North Korea, to try and suppress nuclear WMD, but we don’t have the ability to project any power.

I hope that logical Democrats AND Republicans start asking these hard questions of the Administration in the upcoming Congress. And if they don’t, we the people should be pushing them to do so.