10/28/2009 PERMALINK
Pakistan could be the next giant crack in the collapsing foundation of the old world order Pakistan's urban infrastructure has deteriorated so much over the last decade that just a few tiny pushes is all that would be required to collapse it completely. Eventually, one of the many Pashtun and Pakhtoon tribes fighting the army for control of their mountain homelands is sure to make this connection. Were the current effort one of those tribes has on to attack Pakistani army personnel in the urban areas, shifted over to attacking the urban infrastructure instead. It would be more than sufficient to cause Pakistan's creaky old urban infrastructure to fold up like a Walmart lawn chair under a sumo wrestler. Then the old order would face its worst nightmare, Islamic fundamentalists running around with nukes.