{"id":199221,"date":"2007-08-24T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/24\/the-biggest-threat-to-us-and-israeli-security-revisited\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T10:01:00","slug":"the-biggest-threat-to-us-and-israeli-security-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/24\/the-biggest-threat-to-us-and-israeli-security-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Threat to US and Israeli Security, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/library\/news\/india\/2007\/india-070822-voa01.htm\">another story on the disastrous nuclear deal that the Bush administration has cut with India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>India&#8217;s leftist parties object strongly to the accord. They say it undermines the country&#8217;s sovereignty and its right to conduct nuclear tests. They insist the government stall negotiations, scheduled with the International Atomic Energy Agency and others, until their objections are met.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what are the consequences of this deal?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s nuclear weapons program <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">at best<\/span> continues at the current pace.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Most likely scenario: this frees up resources from civilian nuclear power to go into the weapons program.<\/li>\n<li>Almost as likely scenario: Civilian resources are hijacked to serve the military program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Pakistan accelerates <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">its<\/span> nuclear program in response.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan&#8217;s state security apparatus is thoroughly infiltrated by Islamists and supporters of the Taliban.<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan is very close to a failed stated, with the northern areas not under governmental control, a ruler installed by coup, civil society opposing the current government, and a large segment of the population supporting a Wahabi theocracy.<\/li>\n<li>In the event of an Islamist takeover, it is likely that nuclear materials will be under the control of Islamists, who would seriously consider using them against the US <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> Israel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is quite literally a bigger blunder than invading Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another story on the disastrous nuclear deal that the Bush administration has cut with India. Money quote: India&#8217;s leftist parties object strongly to the accord. They say it undermines the country&#8217;s sovereignty and its right to conduct nuclear tests. They insist the government stall negotiations, scheduled with the International Atomic Energy Agency and others, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1044,978,1042,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-nuclear-weapons","category-politics","category-proliferation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}