Your wife, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated by terrorists, thought she could solve Pakistan's Pushtunistan problem by arming the Afghan Pushtun madrassa students in Peshawar and sending them in to take Kabul and restore order to Afghanistan so that the huge number of Afghan refugees setting down roots in Pakistan would finally go home and relieve the demographic pressure from your northern border.

Do you ever wish you could go back in time and advise her against this so-called brilliant strategy?

How do you feel about the threat of Pushtunistan now? Did your wife's machinations prevent Pushtunistan from arising or did she ensure that eventually the Taliban would spread to Pakistan and threaten to render your country's northern border purely a geographer's construct?

Do you think it will always be true that political reforms in Kabul will inevitably lead to Pushtun trouble on your country's northern border?

Is there any way that you can see to break this cycle of political reform and tribal revolt that has been happening in Afghanistan since the early century?

Is there any way that you can see to break this cycle of political reform and tribal revolt that has been happening in Afghanistan since the early 20th century?

Placeholders and dictators. Zardari is a placeholder. The threat that 'if democracy fails anything can happen (vis a vis nuclear weapons)' followed up by a breezy "these things are complicated there is no button to push' sounds like the frantic desperation of a man soon to be deposed in a country that's plummeting into civil war.

Good luck with all of that. The west needs to accept that Pakistan will implode, that their nuclear weapons will go out of control and fall into the Taliban's hands, and that, as they say, is that. All the west should do is back away and let the fallout where it may. If that means nuclear strikes on Israel. Fine, we can all agree that's a good thing. If there are nucleare strikes anywhere else in the region, that's not a good thing but at least we won't be there to get blamed for it or harmed by it.

As discussed here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/kanuk/2009/05/04/can_the_taliban_take_over_pakistans_nuclear_arsenal

and here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13494