The Real Danger of Pakistan's Chaos
By Douglas Farah
It is clear that Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has serious problems on his hands, and that his decision to impose marshal law is a setback for democracy.
But the real long-term danger, as noted by Bruce Riedel in Newsweek is that ""If you were to look around the world for where Al Qaeda is going to find its bomb, it's right in their backyard."
The facts on the ground in Pakistan pose serious challenges, and those challenges spill over in lethal form to neighboring Afghanistan, where the Taliban is slowly but consistently edging closer to Kabul and maintaining a presence on the economic arteries of the country, including the opium trade.
But the most dangerous element of Pakistan's chaos is its secret nuclear program and unauthorized proliferation, which did not stop with the house arrest of A.Q. Khan in 2004. My full blog is here.
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