“It is not the ignorant “hillbilly” we need to fear. As in the make up of the 9/11 bombers and most of the foreign fighters in the AQI, it is a small group of mostly underutilized middle class youth that is taking the violence and extremism to newer lows. I would be willing to bet that each and every one of the AlQ azhats killed in Mumbai was the off spring of a middle class family.”

Disagree. I think Pakistan has managed to foster a triple-pronged terrorist threat: (1) they are hiding bin Laden and failed Al Queda terrorists from Iraq, (2) their military and ISI are a pack of terrorists in and of themselves playing political games with India over Kashmir, and (3) the disaffected middle-class Muslim youth that we see elsewhere around the world who really are not part of Al-Queda but just want to take a jaunt for a weekend and see if they can kill their very own American soldier, or failing that, go kill a few meebly Indians who won’t shoot back and blame it on Kashmir.

Between these three prongs, the majority of Pakistani’s *must* have claimed a personal affiliation so there cannot be any such thing as a “moderate Muslim Pakistani”.

There were three disparate groups in Iraq, too, and it still remains to be seen if they will be able to come together and make their country work. If possible, I think Pakistan is even worse in its divisiveness than Iraq has been.

I wonder if any one person — a “prince” — has control of Pakistan’s nukes, or if different groups have claimed different nuclear sites for their own.

so that even if they don’t have the knowledge or technology to shoot it off, bin Laden and his Al-Queda group (for example) can claim to the unlearned Pakistani’s who are sheltering him that he, too, has his very own nuclear bomb as befits a great leader and Muslim sheikh. While Bhutto may claim several, and Gul a couple of more, and I’ll bet even Dr. Khan and/or Musharref may have one or two baby ones hidden under their beds for old times’ sake.