dangerous or do you really care?
2007-08-19 04:09:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
You bet it is dangerous, and we should care - a lot. Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Musurraf (sp), the president, of Pakistan is in a very difficult and dangerous position. His government is riddled with al Queda and Taliban supporters and sympathizers. Several attempts have been made on his life. He, Musurraf, is the only thing that is keeping Pakistan's atomic weapons out of the hands of terrorists. He is the only thing that keeps the extremists of Pakistan from starting a nuclear exchange with India which undoubtedly would ignite a greater conflagration. Is Pakistan dangerous. You're damn right it is!
2007-08-19 12:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I knew a man from Pakistan, he was raised in the US and traveled back 4 times a year to see relatives. He was extremely religious and never swore and often fasted and made sure he never ate pork of any kind. His children all spoke perfect English as he did and without any accent and also spoke their language. He built a huge mansion of a home there and was moving his family back so they could experience their own culture. I always felt he had an underlying violence in him against the people in Israel. Other than that I am clueless.
2007-08-19 11:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by lilabner 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of my doctors is from Pakistan. I believe that Pakistan's goverment is doing the best it can to deal with the presence of Salafist Jihadists within its borders. Spillover of both Al Queda and Taliban from Afghanistan into the frontier provinces of Pakistan was inevitable, given how porous that border is in the first place. My biggest worry is about recruiting efforts by Al Queda among the educated classes of Lahore, Islamabad and other large cities. Past experiences have shown that Al Queda's "siren call" is most heard by young men from well-off families who have a great deal of education.
Warfare is endemic in the country to Pakistan's north: Afghanistan. I'm reminded of that by a word in Pashto, one of the leading languages of the area. "Tarbun" has two meanings: cousin and enemy.
2007-08-19 13:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pakistan is a Muslim nation and as such will side with other Muslims in case of an all out war. However, India is our ally and historically India hates Pakistan. Another country I don't trust is Indonesia, another Muslim country.
2007-08-20 00:22:16 · answer #4 · answered by Don S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pakistan is very dangerous! In fact, I think it is pretty close to showing colors we may not have seen yet...at least from them! But, we know enough facts to know that it is just another festering geological and theological sore on the earth!
DO I CARE? You bet, I care!
2007-08-19 18:34:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is something that is going to have to be sorted out by the Pakistani people themselves. Eventually, they are going to want to enter the "world community" as equals, and you can not do that if your country is a breeding ground for dissidents and hate-filled individuals that then move out into the rest of the world to terrorize it.
But I don't want to see "The West" step in to pacify it either! It is not up to us to decide how these people should handle their problems. It is up to THEM. We can keep a "watching brief" on their situations, and not allow their problems to spill over onto us, but we can't force them to BECOME us (or to become just like us).
For better or worse they have their own, different religions. The people will have to learn how to get a handle on controlling their own religious zealots. Make them live up to their own laws...which they break continuously because they think of themselves as "immune from prosecution"!
We in the West have to learn how to do without middle eastern oil. Apart from that do we REALLY NEED anything that the east gives us?
Bring in completely electrical or nitrogen engines for cars that will result in a complete shut-down of oil buying from outside of North American owned reserves. Bring in wind powered and solar powered energy to warm and cool our homes. Of course the big oil companies that presently rule the world (and are based in the U.S.) would be screaming bloody murder from the massive losses of revenue--so maybe they should be the ones leading the development of "alternative resources"?
Pakistan must not become our next Afghanistan and Iraq. It would be madness to expend our childrens lives any more than has been done already. And for what?...so that a President who made the wrong decision regarding this to begin with, won't have to openly admit it? Thousands of lives have been lost just because one man can't sincerely go in front of a television set and say "I am sorry. I made a big mistake in getting us involved in this situation to begin with. But now I have my priorities straight, and have given orders for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Even as a Canadian I would like to see this happen, because it is only the President saying that, that will get my own Prime Minister moving to do the same with Canadian troops. Who I feel have had their lives wrongly spent in a land they have no business being in to begin with.
2007-08-19 12:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pakistan is a boiling pot of a disaster waiting to happen...it is breeding terrorists all in the name of some god...nothing seems to change in life, does it?
2007-08-19 12:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My first thoughts were time bomb, but I will leave that to others that know a lot more than I do.Yes I care a lot.
2007-08-19 11:17:45 · answer #8 · answered by ncgirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not say I don't care. It does not worry me
2007-08-19 11:56:22 · answer #9 · answered by Diamond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋