STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

As the World Turns, Both Nuclear Pakistan/India are Preparing for a “Hot Melt Down” through “Mutual Assured Destruction!” 

As international “twitter attention” has been cleverly diverted to ISIS, Syria, and Iraq, all comparatively small players in the much greater game of “mutually assured destruction”, we collectively have been remiss in ignoring the sandlot tit-for-tat wars arising between Pakistan and it’s inveterate enemy, India.  Reading a recent article in the Washington Post by Tim Craig and Karen Young [for whom I have a lot of respect], 9/20/2014, titled, “Pakistan Is Eyeing Sea-Based And Short-Range Nuclear Weapons, analysts say”, I suddenly gasped for air.  My God, I thought, had we not collectively dealt with the horrific nuclear weapons around the world?
NOT  SO ! 

How foolish could we have been to consider that in the middle of a potential military coup [once again] against the corrupt Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that Pakistan would cease and desist its interminable obsession with defeating India militarily.

Here is what the article pinpoints in the most sober way possible:

“…In the world’s most volatile regions,  Pakistan is ADVANCING TOWARD SEA-BASED MISSILE CAPABILITY  [my emphasis], and expanding its interest in tactical nuclear warheads…”

Why not? Since no one was watching them, including our overstretched and cyber/terrorist-obsessed Intelligence community?
“Pakistan is home to two dozen extremist groups…” the article goes on.

Americans under the CIA John Brennan leadership gave the Pakistanis $26B which the CIA admitted was wasted. Yet our incompetence does not stop there.

Here are some more facts to consider about South Asia.

“Pakistan…first tested atomic device in 1998… their fears have deepened over the past decade amid political tumult, terrorist attacks [which our CIA funded]… and increased tensions [I added that] with INDIA, with which it has fought three wars!”  What we got here are really Bad Hombres who intend to decimate hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent civilians on both sides.

Forget that nonsense about the contrived beheadings of faux journalists who can articulate their own eventual beheadings with Shakespearean monologues that would have exhausted Sir Lawrence Olivier.  Pakistan and India are the real danger—NUCLEAR WAR!!
“For more than a decade, Pakistan…. attempted to bolster its nuclear arsenal with tactical weapons-short range missiles that carry a smaller warhead and are easier to transport”  So what’s India doing about this imminent threat?
“In 2012, India test-launched it’s FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE…. It has more than a range of 3,100 miles…and next year, India will deploy its first nuclear-powered submarine…”

Two long-time enemies, both with genetic inbred plasma hatred of each other since 1949 are now squaring off –not with an ersatz scimitar in order to “cut off someone’s head”---but rather with FISSIONABLE MASS directed at each other’s populations.

So what does our judicious, sagacious President Obama do?
According to a NYTimes article, by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, 9/21/2014:

“….because of political deals and geopolitical crises, the Obama administration is engaging in extensive atomic rebuilding while getting only modest arms reduction in return…”  Its a stupid reaction to counter nuclear build-up of failed states like Pakistan by increasing one’s own nuclear arsenal.  Didn’t we learn anything in the Cold War? Where were these so-called experts in the Obama Administration when the Nixon, Reagan, Bush administrations were heavily involved in bilateral nuclear reductions with the Soviets/Russian Federation?  The current administration,  slathered with the residues of incompetency and arrogance, might read a little about American Disarmament history.  Seriously, is anyone home at the White House?

Maybe its time to call in some experienced “old timers” to engage in an effective new round of nuclear disarmament talks between India and Pakistan.  Whats the worse that can happen? Maybe we can prevent the build up of new, useless and costly nuclear weapons and make the world a safer place?  Obama has not recovered from the Libyan fiasco and we still have the dynamic duo of Samantha Powers and Susan Rice on the loose.  Lets reign in this nuclear madness before it gets out of hand, again.