Why the sane Muslims keep their heads down

Pakistani accused of blasphemy over Prophet film

Once in a while I wonder whether we ought to just suddenly take every single nuke away from every single Muslim country that has one, and wreck all their reactors.

They already hate everybody who isn’t Muslim, especially us, about as much as is humanly possible.

And that’s the problem.

Way back during the initial US attacks on Afghanistan, when a whole lot of US forces moved quickly into Pakistan, The New York Times (as I recall) and then other papers published rumors that some US forces were assigned to find and seize the Pakistani nuclear weapons.

I thought then that the Pentagon and White House, reading the papers, must have been grinding their teeth for lack of a strong legal basis to imprison people for running their mouths about even rumored military operations supposedly planned for the future or then under way.

But not even so much as bitter public criticism of such treasonous irresponsibility was possible without an admission, or coming too close to an admission, in public that such a mission really had been under way.

And that would by no means have helped our relations with the Pakistanis, at the time.

A few days later the papers said the Pakistani government had moved all its nukes to new, secret, and safer locations.

Not for the first time, I hated the invincible, arrogant stupidity of the liberal establishment.

I opposed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq at the time and have opposed them at all times since as stupid, hopeless, and shockingly costly blunders.

But taking the nukes from Pakistan would have made the world a significantly safer place.

It would have been the only really sensible part of an otherwise senseless operation.