When the “West” neglected to do anything beyond ineffective sanctions when India detonated a nuclear explosive in 73 or 74, that set the stage for Pak to go all-out to get the Bomb as well.

So if we were to extradite A Q Khan to the USA, what could he be charged with?
Since when do we have jurisdiction over
those who owe no loyalty to the USA?
A better place would be Holland where he stole trade secrets for the centrifuges used in U235 enrichment.

Saudi Arabia most likely would develop nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, according to a report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Nothing scares me more than the radical Whabi muslims get their hands on weapons grade fissile material . The whack jobs are just crazy enough to start a nasty nuclear exchange in the gulf region provided Israel doesn’t take care of Iran first. I can’t get over the casual attitude of the Bush Administration over the potential nuclear arms race giving the nuclear genie to the lunatics of islam.

Sorry couldn’t help myself.

Pakistan is only familiar with corruption in government. A government that will lie at any moment for any reason to gain an advantage. The state department is lucky nobody really cares or understands that country on the other side of the world.

But the credibility of the state department worldwide goes down the tubes because of our relationship with Pakistan. Pakistan is for the terrorists more than any other nation on the planet. If it is an us vs. them, Pakistan is definitely a them.

The world knows this. The world sees how we treat Pakistan. The world sees how Pakistan plays the US for fools and continues to get piles and piles of money all the while spitting in our faces. That doesn’t make us look strong to anyone. That doesn’t help our position internationally or garner respect among any government.

How we have treated Pakistan is widely viewed as the joke of the world. Why the government of the most powerful nation in the history of the world has allowed it to happen is one of the most tragic occurrences of the Bush administration.

AQ Khan is the figure-head. But he only does what the Pakistani government has allowed him to do.

High-level American diplomats in Riyadh with excellent access to Saudi decision-makers said an Iranian nuclear weapon frightens the Saudis “to their core” and would compel the Saudis to seek nuclear weapons, the report said. The American diplomats were not identified.

Will someone please inform them that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The NIE indicated that Iran has stopped pursuing nuclear weapons and President Bush concluded in favor of the NIE. So, the Saudis can rest easy now. All is well.

/sarc