What if the taliban get pakistan's nukes

They will probably scratch their towels for a long damn time trying to figure out what the fuck they've got, and even longer trying to figure out how they can ever use them. This says nothing of the time it'll take them to figure out a way to deliver it. They're certainly not gonna strap it to a goat and send him walkin'.

By the time they even got close to figuring any of that shit out, we'd have gone in and killed the bunch of them, and taken their toy away.

Pakistan is not that "fragile of a government".

The Taliban has enough problems withen Afganistan with rebels, to go and attack anyone, except for in a terrorist manner.

The nukes are all operational, as well as pakistan having short and medium range missiles to carry them (to India no doubt) The warheads have been tested and work just dandy (about the size of a watermelon)

Pakistan has a number of religious fanatics and groups who support Bin Ladin and see this as an opportunity to seat themselves in government and overthrow the current regime. Taliban sympathizers gaining power is a real possibility,
Pakistan's current military government is highly unpopular for siding with the US

They could probably strap those nukes on the back of a camel and wap it in the ass. Then pray to Allah that the camel doesn't have a homing instinct.

until there is a donkey path leading to our shores, we should be safe.


oops, was that racist?

They're workin' on it.

[quote]Originally posted by Vengeance:

Originally posted by 12clicks:

They're workin' on it.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that was fast!

Granted they aren't equiped with Iraq SCUDS. If they do get the nukes I suppose they could strap them to a camel, and use it as mobile launch platform...

Anything could happen...

We'd have to annihilate them immediately - both countries

The worst thing any terrorist could do at this point would be to set off a nuke on US soil - or any country for that matter. We've all seen the end result of 9/11, where only a few thousand died. Imagine a nuke going off in LA with hundreds of thousands dead. This would give the US a free hand to do whatever it wishes and no one would object.

Imagine V_RocKs resetting the entire first page to 2001 and people commenting on it like it was yesterday... or today...

Yeah, anything could happen...

Maybe they could be an allies.

It's hard to see where the two regimes are separated, really.

Pakistan was the first country to recognize the Taliban is afghanistan's defacto power base in 1997. Mussaref has yet to arrest a single major taliban player. The particular brand of islam practiced by the taliban is widely observed within pakistan and (unconfirmed) rumours have it that the taliban + pakistan have colluded to engage in small-scale insurgencies on India over the disputed Kasmir region.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the taliban and the current regime in pakistan are one and the same, but there's obvious close ties and mutual admiration, and no evidence that those ties have weakened in the last 3 years.

That said, it should be pointed out that the Taliban itself has not been proven to engage in state sponsored terrorism (that I'm aware of) aside from that of giving aid and comfort to islamic extremeists. The 2002 invasion of Afghanistan was not because 'afghanistan attacked someone', it was because they provided training area and (presumably) material support to Al Qaeda and other radical islamist groups. All the actors on 9/11 were majority Saudi, with some UAE, Lebanese and one Egyptian (atta)... not one hailed from afghanistan. However, afghanistan, being a non-oil-producing arab nation with an extremist regime that most people wanted to see gone anyways, was a much more suitable target for bloodlust and retaliation than the saudi easily-disrupted oil fields that would send prices sky high in a heartbeat, torqueing the world into an economic collapse.

It's ironic that afghanistan, being so used to war, basically treated the invasion as yet another incursion in a long list and adapted accordingly... The once-scatted taliban is re-coalescing and on the ascendant, and everywhere outside of kandahar has once again reverted to the playgrounds of the warlords. Sum total accomplishment: put the country back to the state just prior to the taliban's rise (early to mid 90s era).

FWIW, the Taliban have never been any sort of real concern aside from being an 'aligned interest'. If you want to be paranoid about suitcase nukes hitting the fatherland, cast a wary eye at old soviet technology which goes missing at an alarming rate. Some of those guys would sell their mother's kidneys for a case of Stolichnaya, with their mother still attached.

Still relevant, no?

What, are they launching them from camels? The Taliban HATES technology where are they going to find anyone who knows how to make them work?

Allies????

yeah.. anything could happen... we are never certain of what's next.

People could do anything in the light.

Let's just pray it won't get into the hand of those psychopaths...

If taliban would get the nukes, the US must do something about that because that would put us in danger.

It's only a matter of time before I wake up, put on a pot of coffee, turn on the TV and see that 6 million americans were fried in a cloud of fire and neutrons. It will happen in our lifetime.