“Saudi Arabia has arranged to have available for its use two Pakistani nuclear bombs or guided missile warheads, Debkafile’s military and intelligence sources reveal.”
American policy in the region has had a quality of improvisation during the past fifteen years. Attacking Afghanistan had justification as response to al-Quaeda’s attack of 9/11 and the Taliban government providing refuge for Osama bin Laden. But whatever success was achieved by American Special Forces and the CIA in that country failed to be secured by conventional forces deployed to hold the ground. Instead Bush used those to invade Iraq. And the rest is history. Two wars with confused entry and absent exit strategy. Thousands of American military, tens of thousands of local civilians sacrificed in what predictably (or should have been) resulted in military misadventures. More than a trillion dollars borrowed (and outside the budget to conceal the costs) during the Bush presidency alone: just one of the “unintended consequences” that feed the fires of the Great Recession.
Abandoning the region, America’s created chaos: Libya, Egypt, Syria, and a nuclear arms race | Jerusalem Post - Blogs
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