rangerone314 wrote:Should the US nuke Pakistan to prevent the Taliban and al Qaida from obtaining nuclear weapons that could be used against the US?
if the US or Israel just dropped a few nukes, it would create chaos & probably increase the chance of a blowback incident involving nukes & the survivors lashing out in some way, perhaps at India.
if the US or Israel decimated the country, it would drop a boatload of nuclear radiation in China's backyard and somehow i have a feeling they would have a problem with that.
i don't think nuking Pakistan would decrease the chance of those 2 groups obtaining WMD's. i think you'd have to send US troops in & occupy Pakistan.
Iraq might be an example. If there are any nukes there, I think we'd know about it, by way of the presence of US troops in the country for 6 years.