Friday, November 9, 2007

US Nightmare Scenarios in the Middle East and Pakistan

With Israel upping the ante in the Middle East and warning that Iran will have nuclear weapons capability within two years, rather than the four originally predicted by the US administration, the prospect of a fundamentalist Pakistan in possession of nuclear weapons is beginning to cause alarm in the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidden warned this week: “It is hard to imagine a greater nightmare for America than the world's second-largest Muslim nation becoming a failed state in fundamentalists' hands, with an arsenal of nuclear weapons and a population larger than Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea combined."

Read the full CBS news article by clkcking here.