Pakistan on course to become Islamist state, U.S. experts say

[varun]

This is what 8 years of WOT by Dubya has brought us. We have also spent more than $10 billion of US Taxpayer's money on this country, and there's no sight of improvement in the situation. Why arent the teabaggers protesting this tax?


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66368.html

WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials have concluded that there's little hope of preventing nuclear-armed Pakistan from disintegrating into fiefdoms controlled by Islamist warlords and terrorists, posing the a greater threat to the U.S. than Afghanistan's terrorist haven did before 9/11.

"It's a disaster in the making on the scale of the Iranian revolution," said a U.S. intelligence official with long experience in Pakistan who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly.

Pakistan's fragmentation into warlord-run fiefdoms that host al Qaida and other terrorist groups would have grave implications for the security of its nuclear arsenal; for the U.S.-led effort to pacify Afghanistan ; and for the security of India , the nearby oil-rich Persian Gulf and Central Asia , the U.S. and its allies.

" Pakistan has 173 million people and 100 nuclear weapons, an army which is bigger than the American army, and the headquarters of al Qaida sitting in two-thirds of the country which the government does not control," said David Kilcullen , a retired Australian army officer, a former State Department adviser and a counterinsurgency consultant to the Obama administration...

[Bandit]

1. Pakistan sort of reminds me of the USA

We have our own Taliban that is in every way trying to undermine the Government and have it's own Laws and Religion.

[theoldman]

2. Pakistan IS an Islamic state.

It does not have to become one. The worst is yet to come.

[Bandit]

3. In exactly the same way tha the USA is a Christian State.

Pakistan is a Secular country that is falling into a Religious State.

[mainegreen]

4. It's still majority sufi.

I'd be more surprised if it became a single, extremist state, than if it were to split in two.