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War and Piece — | Main November 08, 2009 Sy Hersh on Pakistan's nukes . Posted by Laura at November 8, 2009 09:49 AM
Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
Seymour Hersh | Nov 16 Issue | New Yorker
Obama did not say so, but current and former officials said in interviews in Washington and Pakistan that his Administration has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military. These would allow specially trained American units to provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a crisis. At the same time, the Pakistani military would be given money to equip and train Pakistani soldiers and to improve their housing and facilities—goals that General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the ...
Political Pandering of Ft Hood, New Lebanese Govt
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
... Frank Rich Seymour Hersh Lee Siegel “We’re not going to let the system go back to the way it was,” - Timothy Geithner "As the unemployment rate ...
War Plan Red
Matthew Yglesias —
... to distinguish between what’s purely hypothetical and what’s real. And now what do we do? We have to say WE HAVE TOTAL CONFIDENCE IN THE PAKISTANIS TO SAFEGUARD THEIR NUKES when no sane human being has *total confidence*. But if they don’t hear that, all this ill will built up from the Kerry-Lugar-Berman missteps and the Waziristan operation and the drones and all the rest will boil over, and we’ll be digging ourselves out of this for weeks…
This turns out to not really be what Hersh’s piece is about. That said, this seems like as good a time as ...
Briefing Skipper: Berlin, Fort Hood, Dalai Lama, Seymour Hersh
The Cable —
... But
Kelly did respond to the
new article by Seymour Hersh
questioning the safety and security of Pakistan's vast nuclear arsenal. "Let me
just say the U.S. has no intention of seizing Pakistani nuclear weapons or
material," he said, "We have confidence in the ability of the Pakistani
government to provide adequate security for their nuclear programs and
materials." ...
US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
Source: The Independent (UK) Pakistan's military has angrily insisted that its nuclear weapons arsenal is safely protected and denounced claims that it is secretly negotiating with the United States to allow teams of American specialists to provide added security in the event of a crisis. In a rare public statement, General Tariq Majid, chairman of Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said claims that it was discussing "understandings" with the US that could even see the specialists spirit sophisticated nuclear triggers out of the country to prevent them falling into the wrong hands were "absurd and plain mischievous". "There is absolutely no question of sharing ...
Obama’s Wacky War
Antiwar.com Original —
... and somewhat supported by Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker : that we are negotiating with the closest thing to stable power institutions in the region, Pakistan’s military and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to find a way out of Afghanistan altogether. That sounds too good to be true. We can’t be doing something that smart. Dick Cheney cabin boy and national security adviser ...
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The Moderate Voice —
As President Barack Obama deliberates — no, Dick, he’s not “dithering” — a revised strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, some people in the White House and Pentagon have loose lips and leaked some startling news this past week. If true, consider these developments:
The president has rejected four options on strategy and troop levels from his military intelligence team and instructed them to start over.
The U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, a former commander of troops in the Asian countries, has bucked the now top general and Secretary of State by claiming additional troops to Afghanistan would be a mistake ...
US and Pakistani Distrust, Palestinian End-Around
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man —
Helene Cooper Jonathan Turley David Ignatius Frank Rich "Among the cherished prerogatives of members of Congress is the right to second-guess." - David Ignatius “Do you want Americans fighting and dying for the Karzai regime?” - ...
Hersh Asks: How Safe are Pakistan's Nukes?
Winds of Change.NET —
The New yorker has an article from Seymour Hersh (yeah, I know) called "Defending the Arsenal: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?"
To me, the title falls into the "Duh, of course not" category, especially as you lengthen the time horizon. Now throw in all the Muslim states that have informed the IAEA they're starting nuclear energy programs, and the odds of a nuclear war in my lifetime closely approach 1.0.
I suppose this may come as news to some of the uneducated readers of the New Yorker, who know only what their college professors and the New York Times have deigned to tell them. If so, Hersh may have done a ...
