K.N. Pandita’s Answer to. Mr. Krepon

Linked with Does Threat Reduction Require Threat Inflation?

Dear Mr. Krepon,

Thanks for sending me a copy of your recent write up Does Threat Reduction Require Threat Inflation? I read it keenly.

US- Soviet Union nuclear stand off is outdated subject. I think we need to update our perception of impending nuclear holocaust in a changed scenario. The real threat is not from organized states in possession of nuclear arsenal  but from disorganized, and hence irresponsible and unaccountable Theo-fascist clusters bent upon replacing the existing world’s historical geography and civilizational construct with a theocratic monolith inspired by fourteen century old concoction. First Vietnam and now Iraq are strong historical events to presage a fundamental change in the political philosophy of the US, a change in which there is no going back on clipping the veto powers of the President through an act of Congressional amendment of the constitution.

By annihilating Iraq , the US sadistically helped create Iranian Frankenstein.

If the US wants no country outside the five nuclear members of the Security Council to be in possession of the weapon of mass destruction, this may not work. True, she disarmed Kazakhstan in exchange of big money, decimated Iraq through muscle power (whether Iraq had or had not the dirty bomb),  neutralized North Korea using the Chinese lever, lollipopped India with “nuclear deal” and has been doing stupendous sword-rattling against Iran, all to see that these third world countries remain de-nuclearized. But the multi million dollar question is this: what is its policy towards Pakistan, the cradle of international terrorism and the breeding ground of Theo-fascism standing up to the world community with eyeball to eyeball stance?

In all probability, as Pakistan civilian government is there only in name, and the Army and ISI rule the roost, it is the informal Theo-fascist clusters that have the say. The passage of fissile material and the dirty bomb into the hands of Theo-fascists, who have the agenda of establishing Islamic Caliphate from the Dardanelles to the Straits of Malacca, with the regimes in Islamabad either helpless or conniving at subversion, is the real danger which should be addressed. In all probability, a spell of deep agony has overtaken US-Pak relations in view of the US’ and NATO military might increasingly facing reverses in their war on terror in Afghanistan and Waziristan. As long as the US tax payer is bled to pay for the upkeep of a ludicrous military structure in Pakistan , the danger of nuclear weapon falling in wrong hands will escalate.
Regards , K.N. Pandita, New Delhi.

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