Given that America was only deflated in its momentum to attack Iran when it turned out that the claims made by the White House did not match the findings of the CIA with regards to nuclear weaponry it is safe to say that the new neo-conservative reasoning and justification for waging unprovoked wars of aggression is not that Communism must be defeated, or that civil and political liberties have to be established, but instead that a country which is not in Europe and is not, of course, Israel or America can and should be invaded if they have a will for nuclear weaponry.

This was something of a development of their previous argument, that any country with the dreaded WMDS {besides, of course, Europe, America or “Plucky little Israel”} needed to be invaded.

But I am not interested in going through a history of the “Development” of neo-conservative thought, but instead to make a small suggestion: bomb Pakistan.

Yes, fairly simple when you consider it, isn’t it?

The country is at severe, constant and severe risk of fundamentalist overthrow by a bunch of deranged Islamists who could well be perfectly happy to fire nuclear weaponry at Israel, if they can reach it, or if not the more obvious, immediate and historically appropriate target of India.

Yes, the same India which is estimated to have enough atomic stockpiles to initiate a Global Winter should both it and Pakistan launch their warheads in quick succession, thus literally causing the End Of All Life On Earth As We Know It.

The most viable opponent to the present autocrat was shot in the neck and then blown up yesterday. Either these forces or those belonging to the countries’ own leader could have done this and either way it seems like the region is in for some more havoc and carnage over the next few days.

And…They. Have. Nukes.

So…Brutal, totalitarian leader with a pack of deranged religious types as the most viable alternative. Quite possibly Bin Laden himself is somewhere in the country.

So why the entire absence of suggestions from the neo-cons that we implement some pre-emptive military strikes upon their nuclear weapons facilities? Why are we not mangling the infrastructure surrounding these areas to ensure that they never fall into Islamist hands?

Why were all the guns readying themselves to aim at Iran when a nation which actually has the weapons that America was so afraid of and is rapidly disintegrating politically with no end in sight except perhaps a new, brutally enforced theocratic hegemony is bordering with another nation capable of obliterating the Global Ecology and, quite literally, wiping out every living being upon the face of the planet, or at very least the entirety of the Indian subcontinent?

Surely even brown people must count for about as much as Israel when there are over a billion of them?