The fact is it is the US that was responsible for fostering and creating the Taliban and as a consequence the proto-Al-Qaeda in response to the Russians invading Afghanistan in 1979; it was the US that was responsible for the creation of the 44th parallel artificially dividing what was once an undivided Korea; it was the US too that was responsible for brazenly and oblivious to realpolitik, cultivating the deposed Shah of Iran, Raza Pahelvi! Surely even DLS with his perspicacity would notice that these are precisely the regions that brazenly seek American destruction.

Now (and in the words of a famous African-American pastor who almost derailed Obama's presidential campaign) America's chickens have come home to roost, and what does it do? – it disingenuously (and unilaterally) launches a so-called “war on terror” and takes 30 “unwilling” nations along for the ride! Talk about dysfunctionality! It is they who have an unfortunate habit of opening several Pandora's boxes at once!

Notice I haven't even begun to mention desperate American interference (and pathological incompetence) in Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Venezuela, Kuwait, Saudi, Egypt, Palestine, and most recently Georgia. It is America's own delusional sins that are returning to haunt it! Why blame others? As for Pakistan, it was a failed nation to begin with, and always will be, regardless of any number of sham elections they may choose to hold under US auspices.

Why must the rest of the world feel threatened by Al Qaeda or the Taliban, when their stated aim is the destruction of their “Great Enemy” the US (at least to begin with) – more specifically, why must India? Unlike the US I would hope the Indian leadership would be prepared to use our nuclear deterrent ruthlessly, if reluctantly, in case the Al Qaeda or Taliban (or indeed Pakistan itself) are foolish enough to contemplate any misadventures in the sub-continent.

I hope that is a sufficient reality check for DLS.

Let me now return to wiping away my crocodile tears shed in sympathy for the US.

Of course Pakistan's nukes aren't safe. Pakistan's government is not safe. This is a government containing members of the military that see nothing wrong with starting a nuclear war with India, even if Pakistan were to suffer more, and a government that already was in the news for some of them wanting to give nukes to the Taliban for safekeeping.

This has nothing to do with anti-nuclear pathology, much less making the USA, Europe, and Israel the moral equivalents of (or in some failures' demented or distorted minds, worse than) rogue nations (not a term subject to serious, legitimate dispute), international miscreants and criminals.

The USA is helping to keep the Pakistani government from failing for the same reason it does this in Saudi Arabia and Egypt (to a lesser extent, as they aren't quite as desperate and dysfunctional) — the alternatives would almost certainly be much worse, and the last thing we need are nations among the most important or most vital to fail and become openly (if not “more openly” sometimes) ruled by terrorists.

So yeah, about Al Qaida and the US…little blurry there…

Why is it nations whom the US has unilaterally labeled as “rogue states” such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and the “stateless” Al Qaeda all want to develop nuclear weapons, directed primarily (if not exclusively) at the US?

Could it be because they refuse to accept American delusions regarding global supremacy, and wish to put the US in its place?

Maybe it is not such a bad thing for the world if a couple hundred nuclear weapons from Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Pakistan are perpetually trained against the US, 24/, 365 days a year – it will teach the Americans to behave.

Nothing is more effective than the threat of extermination.