http://sify.com/news/specials/terrormap/
*Interestingly calm and reasoned discussion about busting Pakistan up into tiny pieces.
You might think that because the Pakistanis are bristling with nuclear weapons, and also that, even if somehow conquered, they're basically an Afghanistan with the population of Russia, people wouldn't want to mess with them on the ground.
*But, since they're Moslems, they do offer the interesting tactic of letting them murder each other wholesale and bust THEMSELVES
into tiny bleeding pieces, which seems to be the grand strategy behind the musings here.
*Endless panoply of trigger-happy Pakistani zealots, most of whom are already dead, mostly at the hands of other Pakistanis:
http://sify.com/news/imagegallery/galleryDetail.php?hcategory=14684615&hgallery=14816782
Large failed state perhaps somehow less toxic as six or seven quarreling failed ethnic-warlord microstates:
*Okay, those are pretty bold projections. Reckless, even.
Now, I'm trying to think of a major power who would plausibly
OBJECT to Pakistan being broken up into tiny pieces. I'm coming up a little dry here.
*Aw the heck with it, just bust up the entire Middle East:
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899
*Hey wait a sec, brilliant idea: maybe the oil will pay for it.
*This just in: tralala, whoopee, ka-boom:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/06/nuclear-pakistan-khan
